Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 179, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1913 — Dinner Bell Saves Chicago Sleuth From Dog [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Dinner Bell Saves Chicago Sleuth From Dog

CHICAGO. —There was a perfectly good reason why William Kayes, a uniformed policeman of the South Chicago station, and Matt McNamara, a plain clothes detective, took a shotgun with them the other day when they went to serve a warrant on John Dents, a truck farmer at 106th street and Benzley avenue. This is the reason: Dents owns an enormous Newfoundland dog which has all the traits of a bulldog, a bloodhound and a mastiff rolled into one. Dents had never purchased a license for the animal, and the dog catchers ventured no closer than the echo of its bark. Accordingly Capt Morgan Collins of the South Chicago station handed McNamara a warrant to serve' on the owner. The detective arrived at the farmhouse and found nobody home, except the dog, which was chained in the front yard. Objecting to the Intruder, the canine snapped its chain and started for McNamara. The closest thing in 'sight—next to the dog—was a high pole, on the top of which hung the farm bell. McNamara reached the foot of the pole in six jumptf and' the top in six seconds. While the dog leaped about the foot oj the pole, barking and snapping perilously close to the detective’s updrawn heels, McNamara perspired and scanned the horizon for a human be-

Ing. For more than an hour he clung there. • Finally McNamara thought of the bell and gave the rope a jerk. The farm hands out in the fields thought" it was mighty early for supper, but still they came. When they discovered the house locked and supper yet uncooked, they were in no humor to be disturbed by the frantic shrieks of a man clinging to a pole in the hot sun. At last, however, they were convinced, called off the dog and permit* ted McNamara to take his unserved warrant back to the Chicago avenue station. The next day he armed himself with r shotgun, and took Kayes along fbr further protection, and went back to the farm. As soon as the dog saw the uniformed policeman it ran behind the house, and it had to be coaxed out. The warrant was served.