Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1893 — Suicides by Cats. [ARTICLE]

Suicides by Cats.

Now and then one sees a paragraph on its rounds describing how a cat committed suicide by getting in front of a street car and letting the wheels go across its neck. My friend, the motorman, does not believe in the suicide theory. He said it is stupidity nnd slow thinking that costs the cat her life. “Them animals,” he save, “gets confused. You can see that ttey don’t wani to get hurt no more nor a man would,but when they see cars coming both ways and horses and wagons, and crowds on the sidewalks, and hears the noises, they don’t know which way to go. They lose their senses most at night, because the lights seem to scare ’em. Since I’ve been running a trolley car I’ve run over half a dozen of ’em and they all squatted down on the rails. But they didn’t mean suicide.” —[Boston Globe.