Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 247, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1911 — Found a Mummified Cat. [ARTICLE]

Found a Mummified Cat.

Stone masons altering the front of the Episcopal diocesan house. 41« Lafayette place, New York, taro out tho stonework at the top of the second story- Patrick Shine, the boss mason, found a dusty object which he dug out with a trowel. It was a mummified rot, “a perfectly good cat except for lack of breath,- said Shine. The diocesan house was built la / 13J8, so Shine easily figured that the cat was bora eighty-three years ago st least. He said he would give tho mummy to a relative, a taxidermist. to mount. ’ « ,■' ' ■ ' ar ’• • •