Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1913 — Brave Bulldog Captures a Supposed Safe Blower [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Brave Bulldog Captures a Supposed Safe Blower

CHICAGO. —A dog the other night captured a youth supposed to be a member of a band of safeblowers find held him until the police arrived to take him into custody. While only a volunteer aid to the overworked police department, the bulldog took hold of things when they got beyond the grasp of Detective Sergeants Mullin and Burns. So careful was he that his prisoner should not escape that it required all the persuasive power of the two policemen, two other members of the band to which the youth is supposed to belong and the prisoner himself to effect his transfer to the arms of the law. Then a Weak spot in the things the dpg took hold of when they got beyond the grasp of the detectives

was largely responsible for the transfer. The dog kept the weak spot. The detectives arrested three' young men, Michael Meffl, 18 years old; Joseph Missina, 22 years old, and William Pisano, 18 years old, at 18th and State streets. They started toward the loop with them on a State street car. At 16th street Pisano leaped from the car and ran toward the lake. Forcing their other two captives ahead •of them, the detectives followed, but Pisano, unhampered, easily outdistanced them and disappeared in yard at 16th street and the Illinois Central tracks. It was here that the dog became Interested. He resented Pisano’s intrusion upon his undivided occupancf of the yard, but once he grasped things beyond the officers, he held on. Pisano’s pries attracted the panting minions of the law and the struggle for his transfer began. Mullin and Burns failed to learn the address of the owner of the dog. They did not have time. He transferred his dislike when he was forced to transfer bls prisoner, and took no trouble to conceal that fact.