Norwich bulletin., 1911-02-15
DOG oAYs FoR WARDEN.
Stray Animals Caught and Lest Keen Official Hustiino.

The troubles of Dog Warden Irving M. Ford were further complicated on Tuesday and during the snow storm ine was kept exceedingly busy. The war den went to the pound, which has been located in a box stall having a high screened siding and a locked sloor. in what is called the city barn. Tuesday V morning, to feed the two dopa that were awaiting their fate This was betwSen and 10 o'clock. The dogs partock of their morning meal with avidity and appeared to be satisfied. All went, we'll for lime until the dog warden received a telephone xtaeesa ge that there vera a couple of stray dogs requiring attention in two different sections of the city. He hustled out ana. smelling @ rat, went to the pound. ana although the door was locked the oogs were missing. Landlord Winter Of tho Hotel Hooker had made com piaint that the dogs kept bowling all night long and that the guests of his hobel had registered a strenuous kick,
 when Dog Warden Ford realized that some game had been played upon him ne started out and endeavored to To- cate the missing dogs. A trip to 1I4 Bridge street in answer to a telephone call enabled him to releash the m known black and tan dog that he roped In the corridor of the new postoffice Aendey afternoon. Mrs. Sweet said
 
 her home for about week and that Monday he had followed her to the postoffice. It is believed that when the dog was released by some unknown person from tEe pound late Tuesday forenoon he Mixed 1t for Bridge street Warden Ford then hustled over to j. c. Trudeeu's blacksmith shop on Bank street, as MT. Trudeau had telephoned the police that a valuable dog without a tag had been hanging around there a-ll the morning. He was informed to hold it by Captain Richmond and then the captain notified Mir Ford that per- haps the bulldog that was among the missing was the dog at the blacksmith shop. But upon arrival at the smfthy's Warden Ford found that instead of the dog. the valuable bull. which the owner had refused to redeem at the custom ary rate of s, a new one loomed up on the horizon in the form of an elder lv hound, black and white speckled but more black then white. The dog was without naxne or a tag, but had collar one. Deg Warden Ford is try Ing to obtain s. pound that will be frea rom fntrusicn. and at last accounts had the black and tan dog tied to the leg of the kitchen stove at his home and the newest addition chewing a bone in solitude in the cellar. Dog Warden Ford IS determined to locate the bulldog deserter and either put him oet or the way or collect the B that is rfEhtfuily his for taking him. It is not know whether there is any penalty in the statutes for dogs breaking their eorfipsynent. hut 1t Is known that no one without authority can release con- fined dogs without getting into trouble -if apprehended. Late in the after noon Dog Warden Ford was seen beat ing it off on a new trail-presunnab ably in quest of the much wanted bulldog or a new victim without hix frropGr credentials.
 And there are those who are unkird enough to say that the dog warden's salary is too large for the petty trials and tribulations which he must con- stant1y overcome