Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 306, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1912 — BULLDOG STOPS TRAM LINE [ARTICLE]

BULLDOG STOPS TRAM LINE

Canine Mounts Driver's Platform of London Car and Forces Him to Leave. London. —An amusing story of how a bulldog held up a train, along with the driver, conductor and passengers, in Newcastle, is told by the Daily Sketch. The tram was going from Jesmond to the Central railway station when the bulldog, a large specimen of Its kind, mounted the driver’s platform and defied all efforts at dislodgment It growled and showed its teeth, and though the driver held his post for some time the dog ah last became so threatening that he beat a retreat to the rear platform. The passengers also retired in the face of such a formidable foe, leaving the bulldog In undisputed possession. Finally the tram was manipulated from the rear platform Into the sheds, where a few buckets of water sufficed to “coax” the intruder from Its strong* hold.