The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1912-09-26
DOG RUN OVER BY
AUTO STARTS RIOT
Routs Mounted Policeman and Takes
Possession OF Office Building.

KoutS MounIeo Policeman dHo aNU
Possession OF Office Building.
Philadelphia, Pa.-Special: A stray
bull terrier. run yer by a a auto
mobile speeding down South Broad
street shortly after noon yesterday,
decided to annihllate the m race
on general principles passed q
pleasant and not ~uneventful half hour
Limping TO the steps OF the BELLEVUE
Stratford he sat down and took q rapid
survey of his injuries. A hind leg was
cut and bleeding. Then he had a bruts-
ed sensation in the chest-perhaps a
rib was broken. Just as that thought
occurred to him and he was nosing over
his ribs to ascertain. q swift kick re-
moved him from the precincts OF the
hotel. Seeing red, he sprang at a
passerby and then things began to
happen. After a score OF men and
girls had made a wild dash for cover,
up came a mounted traffic policeman.
Dodging his night stick the bull ter
rier sprang again and again at his
horses throat. Then, feeling that fire.
arms would not i~mprobably be brought
into action in the near future, were he
to stay he trotted west down walnut
street. Pausing now and again to
make a. dash at passersby. He had
trotted only a square when he caught
sight Of the doorway of the Dexter
building, at the corner of Fifteenth and
Walnut streets. 1t looked cool and in
viting within, and after chasing a cou-
Pile Of sailors for a square south, he
returned and trotted upstairs.
Routs Office Force.
Entering the office of the Charles
Sylvester Real Estate company. quite
thrown over him. Without any ado he
flew at the office force and a good deal
happened during the mex 10 minutes.
Then the elevator man arrived with
succor for the beleaguered, and real
estate experts breathed more easily
from their perches on shelves and the
tops of roll top desks. Wading
through the wreckage came Trafic Po-
liceman Weeks. He found the bull ter
rier lolling in the managers chair,
glancing out over the city roofs. 1t
was not until Policeman Weeks and
the elevator man had slipped a cord
through his collar and started toward
the door that he awakened from his
reVeries. simultaneously the elevator
man thought he heard the elevator bell
and left Policeman Weeks to face the
music.
The, policeman and the bull terrier
fought for awhile. The clerks present.
ly showed a disposition to pick up
chairs n rulers and handy rock
samples of real estate and join in. The
bull terrier was making out pretty
well: he didn't need their help but he
c~ourteously paused a moment to allow
them to come on On and share the glory
OF killing a policeman. When some one
threw the first ruler at him, he put II
down to bad aim. When a chair and
a sharp cornered tin typewriter cover
followed and hit him, however, he felt
that these inadroit marksmen would be
more of a hindrance than a help. He
decided to leave them to carry on the
fight themselves and in one bound he
sprang out Of the window. Now, 1t is
-four stories drop to the pavement be-
low.
Sympathy Misplaced.
Poor doggie!" murmured a steno-
grapher with a sigh. Wonder where
| they bury 'em!" unused q clerk.
Policeman Weeks borrowed a few
pins and mended himself up sufficient
ly to undertake a journey through the
streets to the nearest drug store.
IN phone for the street cleaners and
| get the body cleared away at once"
said tina elevator as they went
down.
The bull terrier was sitting on the
front step nf the Dexter building and
| smiled pleasantly AS he caught Po-
| liceman Weeks eye. While the dog
| stroIled up and down and stretched
| himself, to demonstrate his degree Of
| deadness after a 50-foot dive on to q
stone pavement, the telephone got busy
and soon an ambulance u wagon OF
the Women's Pennsylyania Society for
the Prevention OF Cruelty to Animals
! came on the scene.
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