Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 58, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 March 1913 — Brief Tale and Puzzling Mystery of Stray Cat [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Brief Tale and Puzzling Mystery of Stray Cat

BUFFALO, N. Y. —The tiger cat may have come In on the 11:49 o’clock ■train at the Lehigh Valley station in Washington the other morning. James Robertson, who checks the baggage, did not notice it, but Tony, his assistant, came along the platform with the cat under his arm. > "The Honorable James Robertson, Lehigh Valley station,” was the label on the cat. Robertson said he did not want IL The cat arched its back and rubbed Robertson’s legs. “Some cat, Jim,” said policeman Grant B. Shook. "It takes to you all right” “It’s not my cat" protested Robertson. "If I didn’t claim to own the cat, I wouldn’t have it going around with my name on a tag,” he said. Robertson cut off the tag, whereupon the cat seemed to grow fonder of him. Where he went the cat went "It ought to be given some milk,” said Shook with an eye on a bottle back of the counter. The girls shcok their heads and re-

plied that the company did not give away milk. Shook then had a talk with Robertson. The latter bought the bottle of milk. Soon the cat was lapping up milk after which it curled up near a steam pipe under one of the benches. ,*T told Jim that -if the cat had milk it might stop bawling. I had on my uniform and no change in my pockets,” said Shook. "I’ll be darned, but the first thing I knew this afternoon I missed the cat,” explained policeman Shook. "Jim told me he didn’t know where It went But, thinking it over, the cat disappeared about the time the 8:45 train went out No, I don't know where It came from.”