Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 275, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1912 — Black Cat That Knows How to Turn on the Lights [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Black Cat That Knows How to Turn on the Lights

BOSTON, Mass.—A cat played burglar In the diamond store of ♦Charles E. Kattelle, in the Kimball (building, at 13 Tremont street, early the other day and caused the night watchman and the police of the Old (Court Square station to nearly coltjapne of shock. When James Jackson, the watchman, made hie rounds, he found everything all right in the diamond shop. Shortly afterward he discovered the electric lights burning brightly. He erept to the door and listened for the 4read music of the safe burglar's drill. AH was still except for a constant purring. Jackson called Sergt. Walter Berry and Policemen Marks and Hale. They peeped through the hole in the door where letters are dropped, and «aw nothing unusual. The master's key to the locks of the door will not open the door of the geauahop, for it Is provided with a special jeweler’s lock to guard against thieves. Kattelle was called by telephone from his home in Newton. InMi'ke arrived he explained that the KflUs to his sbnn are furnished by

an illuminating company, while those in the corridors of the building are supplied with current by a series of dynamos in the basement connected with the building itself. When James Jackson, the watchman and the policemen Jumped inside with him. prepared for a conflict with the burglars, they were greeted by a sleek, purring cat which was evidently happy to see them. It was revealed that the cat, in jumping about, had snapped the electric light switch over and,turned on the lights. Mr. Kattelle explained that the cat had turned on the lights before, when tired of-Temalnlng alons In the dark ness,