Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1896 — A Dog Detective. [ARTICLE]

A Dog Detective.

Danger, the dog detective of the Lake Shore and Nickel Plate Railroad companies and the terror of tramps and evil-doers, is no more. Danger was the comrade of Special Watchman Leopold Nagoski of the Nickel Plate Railroad, whose shanty stands in the midst of the Lake Shore tracks at Seventeenth street. The dog and his master were crossing the Santa Fe tracks early yesterday morning when a cat ventured in Danger’s path. The dog chased the cat and did not notice an approaching passenger train. He was run over and killed, and every watchman about the railroad yards in the vicinity is in mourning. Danger’s master buried him last night near the shanty, with a coupling pin and link to mark his grave. Danger’s entry into the railroad watchman business occurred about three years ago. Watchman Nagoski rescued him from a crowd of wicked boys who had tied a tin can to his tail and chased him on the tracks at Eighteenth street. The old watchman took the can off the dog’s tail, invited the brute into the shanty, and ever since the dog has been Nagoski’s faithful servant and companion. It is said that Danger was worth a dozen men in ferreting out the tramps and thieves who infest the railroad yards at night, and since Watchman Nagoski found the dog there has not been a car seal broken in the Nickel Plate or Lake Shore yards. Danger lived on the fat of the land, and was the pet of all the dining car chefs about the yards. “Danger was not a pretty beast, but he was a wise one,’’said a crossing man this morning. “He knew more than a great many men do, and he will be badly missed.”—Chicago News.