Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 226, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1912 — Athletic Cat Visits an Ohio Temple of Justice [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Athletic Cat Visits an Ohio Temple of Justice

CLEVELAND, O—a Maltese cat, with a mangy, rat-bitten tail and a hankering for the beautiful in art ahd architecture, entered and upset the tranquillity of the county’s $5,000,000 courthouse the other day. The cat made a hasty but complete lour of the building, led Custodian Clay’s guides and subguides a merry chase through marble corridors and closed the performance with a “leap of death" act from the marble railing which overlooks the forum in the center of the building. The guides dared not. follow. How the cat entered the building is a mystery. Guides on the lower floor and at the entrances denied that

it passed them. Chief Watchman O’Connor found It reclining against a bunch of grapes wbtch form part of the $90,000 decorations on the upper floors of the building. He approached with caution and a volume of Ohio state reports. The latter he held behind his ba*:k. The cat scented trouble and vanished. O’Connor spread the alarm. Guides responded from all sections of the building. The chase was on. It took in offices and courtrooms, In terrupted trials, scattered Jurors and frightened court witnesses. Then pussy, after touring the two upper floors, decided to parade around the marble railroad which overlooks the forum. It was high and. dangerous. The guides called foul, but the cat paid no heed. O’Connor volunteered to crawl out and capture it. He traveled with more caution than speed. The cat traveled ten feet ahead of him for a while, then leaped to the floor below and disappeared.