Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1912 — TALLS OF COTHAM AND OTHER CITIES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

TALLS OF COTHAM AND OTHER CITIES

Doctor Chokes a Rabid Dog to Death

NEW YORK. —Dr. E. B. Ackerman, veterinarian of the health department, is nursing a couple of slightly strained wrists that have bothered him a little since the day when he was obliged to use all the strength that was in them to strangle a rabid Boston bull terrier that was getting ready to present the doctor with an attack of hydrophobia. The health department got a hurry call on the phone from Mrs. Anna ''Hatch to the effect that a mad dog had taken possession of her apartment, and as she had left some dishes cooking on the stove, she would be greatly obliged if some one were sent at once to remove the intruder. Dr. Ackerman was given the assignment, and when he got to Mrs. Hatch’s place she told him that the dog had

crawled Into a closet, that she had shut the door and had locked the creature in. Dr. Ackerman unlocked the-door and whistled. There was an instant response on the part of the Boston bull, which had as much froth on his face as adorns the top of a summer schooner at Coney. The dog’s mouth was wide open and his biting apparatus was in fine order. The veterinarian met him half way, and with a knack learned by long experience, grabbed the beast tightly about the neck with both hands. He pressed both thumbs carefully on the jugular vein and the windpipe and held on grimly, urged on by the frightened screams of Mrs. Hatch, who pleaded with him not to let go. It was all over in less than five minutes, and the dog was stretched out on the kitchen floor in a perfectly harmless condition. The remains, froth and all, were sent to the research IaTP oratory in Manhattan, and a report received by the Brooklyn office of the health department confirmed Dr. Ackerman’s diagnosis that the dog had rabies. .