Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-09-01
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nexed statements set out what occur
red quite clearly.
Thought It a Dream.
Thinking that the whole thing was
nothing more than a disagreeaole
! dream, ! made no inquiries about the
! dog and never learned even that II
was missing until that Sunday night,
when my little girl, who is in the habit
of feeding it, told me so. At break
fast time, may add, nobody knew that
it was gone. as it had been seen late
on the previous evening. Then | re-
membered my dream, and the following
day inquiries wer set on foot.
To be brief, on the morning Of
Thursday, the 14th, my servant,
Charles Bedingfeld, and / discovered
the body Of the dog floating in the
Waveney against a weir about mile
and quarter away. The two GER
tificates of the veterinary surgeon, Mr..
Mullane, are inclosed herewith. They
sufficiently describe it's condition.
] On Friday, the 18th. was going in
to Bungay to offer a reward for the
discovery of the persons who were
supposed to have destroyed the dog in
the fashion suggested in Mr.. Mullane's
first certificate. when at the level
crossing ON the Bungay road was
hailed by two platelayers, who are
named respectively George Anterior
and Harry Agar. These men inform
ed me that the dog had been killed by
train, and took me on a trolley down
to certain openwork bridge which
crosses the water between buckingham
and Bungay, where they showed me
evidences of it's death. This is the
sum of their evidence:
Sum of the Evidence.
1t appears that about O'Clock upon
the Monday morning, very shortly after
the first train had passed, in the
course Of his duties, Harry Agar was
on the bridge, where he found a dogs
collar torn off and broken by the en-
CINE (since produced and positively
identified as that worn by Bob, coagu
lated blood and bits of flesh, of which
remnants he cleaned the rails. On
, search also personally found portions
of black hair from the coat of dog. Or
the Monday afternoon and subsequent
ly his mate saw the body of the dog
| floating down 70 the weir, it having
risen with the natural expansion OF
gases, such as, in this hot weather
might be expected to occur within
about forty hours of death. 1t would
seem that the animal must have been
killed by an excursion train that left
buckingham at 1925 on Saturday
: night returning empty from Harlestor
little after H. This was the last
train which ran that night. No trains
run on Sunday, and it is practically
certain that it cannot have been killed
on the Monday morning, for then the
blood would have been still fluid. AL
so men who were working around when
the $3.50 train passed must have seer
the dog on the line (they were ques
toned by Agar at the time and had
seen nothing), and the engine driver
! il broad daylight would also have wit
! messed and made a report of the acct
dent, of which in a dark night he
would probably know nothing. Further
if it was living, the dog would almost
/ certainly have come home during Sun
Gay, and it's body would not have risen
SO quickly from the bottom of the
river. or presented the appearance it die
on Thursday morning. From traces
left upon the piers of the bridge it ap
pears that the animal was knocked OIL
carried along some yards by the train
/ and fell into the brink of the water
where reeds grow. Here, if it were still
living, and. although the veterinary
thinks that death was practically in
Simultaneous, its life may perhaps have
suffocated and sunk, undergoing,
imagine, much the same sensations as
did in my dream, and in very similar
surroundings to those that l saw there
in-namely, among scrubby growth
at the edge of water.
A Few Conclusions.
Both in judicial and a private
capacity have been accustomed al
my life to the investigation of evi
dence, and, if we may put aside oul
familiar friend 1.-The long arm of coin
cidence," which in this case would
surely be strained to dislocation,
confess that that available upon this
matter forces me to the following con
illusions:
The dog Bob, between whom and my
self there existed mutual attachment
either at the moment of his death II
his existence can conceivably have
been prolonged till after 1 in the morn
ing. or, as seems more probable, about
three hours after that event, did sue
coed in calling my attention to its act
ual or recent plight by placing whatever
portion of my being is capable of re
ceiving such impulses when enchained
by sleep into its own terrible position