Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 172, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1914 — DEATH-WATCH CAT IS HAPPY [ARTICLE]

DEATH-WATCH CAT IS HAPPY

Poe-esque Animal, Whose Cries Revealed Master’s Body, Gets New Home at Los Angeles. — Jake, the black cat whose walls led neighbors to the dead body of Frank Hamble of 216 West Sixty-ninth street, Los Angeles, after life had been extinct a week, found a new home. He slept for hours in the sunshine,' apparently unmindful of the harrowing hours-spent shut in the room with the remains of his late master. Neighbors adopted the cat when, almost starved, it was taken Sunday from the little two-room house where Hamble passed the last hours of his life. Jake was almost a skeleton, and great care had bo be taken at first in order not - blm. but, stretched in a' rocking chair, his sides bulging and hla big green eyes closed to mere slits, Jake was the picture of contentment. ' Hamble’s mother, Mrs. F. A. Saunders, offered to care for the sole companion of her son for many months prior to his death, but when she found Jake apparently happy and content to remain with a neighboring family, she left him In his adopted home. Tfoe body of Mr. Hamble was found by"Fafrblihan Johnson after the mournful cries of the cat had aroused the neighborhood to the fact that something was wrong In the little cottage.