The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-03

of March was 6e' "-' .Aat-1 -ie fact remains that 1t -nsify % inc ons,.:. indictment season in wand week later hetat exposure to the bitter dog in front of rifggeyaiiing then is Lynchburg and the fight ot- more than Is historic in that town, Ebsrt. 1os iSg. and departing for home with both eyes bIackened.
 For nearly a year Eberts went on Kicking every dog that came within kicking distance of him, trying to get even for the harm they had done him. Last January he went to his horse barn early in the evening to examine a horse that had been sick and he nut the lantern down on the barn floor near the stall While he was working around the horse he heard a suspicious snin and saw Frank Davidson's mon- grel cur at his heels. He aimed A wild kick at the dog, which put its tail between its legs and fled bowling down the floor, knocking over the lan- tern. Eberts jumped for the lantern, but before he could reach 1t burning oil l had reached the hay in the manager near by and and five minutes later the barn was burning furiously and 1t was with dimculty that he rescued nine of his horses. two perishing in the flames.
 The fire spread to the big corn crib near by and only desperate efforts by 1 the hired men and the neighbors saved the other buildings
 Instead of learning lesson of kind ness from this. Eberts vowed he would kill every dog he could reach and the following week after kicking Colonel
 Payson Maxwell's dog that biooded a.ni- mal turned upon him and gave fight, whereupon Eberts dyew a revolver and killed the dog. Colonel Maxwell brought suit and recovered damages,
 besides forcing Eberts to pay g heavy
 fine in the criminal action that he started.
 A few weeks ago the climax of the strange series of misfortunes that fol-
 lowed Eberts' act in kicking his sis | ter's poodle was reached. He went to Cincinnati with a load of horses, in- tending to dispose of them in the Fifth Street market. He sold the horses at good prices and, feeling we'll satisfied
 with the days work, he walked down
 to Fountain square and stopped at the
 edge of the esplanade, hoping to meet
 some acquaintance from up in his part
 of ehe country who had come down on
 a s1 excursion and who, he knew, would be around the fountain some time dur
 ing the day.
 Rain had been falling and the espla-
 made was slippery. As Eberts stood
 there he felt a touch on his trousers
 leg and. turning, he saw a small black and-tan terrier sniffing at his trousers. Wild with rage. he turned and kicked viciously at the little beast. He missed.
 His foot slipped on the wet stones of the esplanade he fell, slid off the es-
 planade and shot feet first under an on- rushing Covington car.
 He was taken from underneath the
 car with both legs crushed and the
 surgeons at the city hospital amputated
 both just below the knee.
 While unconscious and all during the operation Eberts rayed about dogs, de-
 claring they had ruined his life, and cast an evil spell upon him. No one
 knew what he meant until the news of
 his terrible accident reached Lynch burg.
 It is declared among the superstitious
 in that locality that Eberts had been punished for kicking dogs, and, aI- though many persons there deny they ] are superstitious, 1t is safe to say that Lynchburg and Dodson township and ,. all that valley of the east fork are the
 safest places for dogs in the world.