Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 February 1911 — Stopped Train to Recover Poodle. [ARTICLE]

Stopped Train to Recover Poodle.

Mrs. Richard Buckles of Taylorville, 111., caused a passenger train on the Bluff line to be stopped between Alton and St. Louis while she got off to search for a pet French poodle dog which she had intrusted to the baggage man and which escaped through the open car door. Mrs. Buckles was going to McClusky, 111., to visit and had put the dog in the baggage car. While the baggage man had the door open the dog leaped out and the baggage man went back to notify Mrs. Buckles of the loss. Mrs. Buckles insisted that the conductor stop the train while she got off. She found the poodle, only slightly injured. She then drove to Alton, where she waited for another train. —St Louis Globe-Democrat