Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-10
HERE'S A TRUE CAT STORY
Remarkable Effort of Intelligent
Feline to Preserve Her
Young.

Is It the call OF the wild that causes q
cat with her first kittens to hide them
away from the eyes of mani The actions
of a young cat with her three little kit
tens, her first ones, by the way. has
caused a great deal Of discussion at police
headquarters lately.
About ten days ago the kittens were
born. At that time the young mother
sought a drawer in the desk of the Game
we'll operator. Maurice Walsh, which
place she entered from the rear. left
her and her progency entirely concealed!
Mrs, Kitty was discovered, however, and
given into the care of Andy Bean. the
one-armed negro who cleans the court
room. HI made a comfortable bed in a
box in the basement and moved the little
family to it's new home. Mrs. Kitty ap-
peared very nervous, as many persons
passed near where she and her kittens lay.
She would look up at them as IL to ask
why they. were there.
She stood the test for two days. Then
the home was found deserted-the kittens
had been moved. Wherei No one knew.
Mrs. Kitty was seen about the station,
and, though followed several times, she
never would lead Andy to her new home.
vi tho HlBHN VI July D FRANK ocOllt BdH
inspector, sought the negro nurse and said
ANDY your cat and kittens are over in my
office. You'd better move them tonight,
as the hall is to be closed tomorrow and
she can't get to them. She carried them
all in my place and hid them behind the
gas tester. / placed them In a box"
Andy went over and took kitty, her fam
lily, new box home and all back to the
"a A. H- "a
looked ~nervously at the many people en-
tering and leaving police court-they all
had to pass near her home. Sunday morn
ing, when all was quiet, she was caught
trying to move her little family back to
the Gamewell home, where they were
born. In this she was frustrated.
Monday came and there was the biggest
police court docket of the year. That was
all Kitty could stand. Her home was
very comfortable. She had a negro to
answer her every beck and call, but the
street" she lived on must have been too
noisy. How she did 1t no one will ever
know, but she actually stole out her
kittens, one by one, and moved them to a
box in the dark vault in the office of
Jones e. Vincil, secretary of the police
board. two floors higher up. The call Of
the wiz mao taken possession OF n0r again.
Mr.. vincil saw Mrs, Kitty make several
trips to his vault, but was busy and did
not notice that her family was within.
That night he closed and locked the vault.
KITTY was frantic. She moaned and
walled about the station all night and re-
manned long outside the door OF the sec
retary's office, out OF which she was also
looked. Yesterday morning. however,
when the office was opened Kitty was
there. Then she ran to the vault and
asked Mr.. Vlncil as plainly as a cat could
to hurry and open 1t. When he did so the
young mother jumped into the box and
cared for her very hungry little ones.
The struggle to be natural, to revert
back to the actions Of cats before they
were domestlcated, was too great for
Kitty, however. She gave up the right
and one by one slowly removed her family
to the noisy home in the basement near
the police court. She is there now, look
ing dolefully at all passersby and appar-
emily regarding them with suspicion. The
call of the wild she may feel all day long,
but she knows now. no doubt, that she
amt crafty it.-Kansas City Journal.