Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 197, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1911 — DOG TELEPHONES FOR HELP [ARTICLE]

DOG TELEPHONES FOR HELP

Locked in Store, Rover Yelps Into Instrument and Police Finally Come to His Rescue. East Orange, N. J.—Rover, a yellow dog owned by Michael Bellotti, a bootblack, of 39% Greenwood avenue, this city, called help when it found itself locked up in the shop, by knocking down the telephone, calling central, and then sending such noises over the wire, that the telephone operator sent word to the police that something was wrong in the shop. The result was that a policeman was sent there and the dog was released. Rover, in his efforts to reconcile himself to his imprisonment, had eaten most of Bellottl’s blacking. He also had reduced the shop to a condition of unprecedented disorder. One of the girls in the telephone exchange was nodding near the switchboard early when a call came from the Bellotti telephone. “Hello!” she said. There was no human response, but she heard coming over the wire a whining and snarling noise, and at Intervals, the sound of things falling. Once she thought she heard a human being pleading for mercy, and immediately afterward came a gurgling sound. The uncanny noises worked on her nerves, and she called up police headquarters. “I am sure there Is something wrong in Bellotti s,” she said. “The noises there are simply terrible." Patrolman Zink rushed to the place, forced a window and found Rover making desperate efforts to get out