Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 294, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1916 — DOG CAN’T BE KILLED: GAS AND BULLETS FAIL [ARTICLE]

DOG CAN’T BE KILLED: GAS AND BULLETS FAIL

Always Comes Out Smiling When Other Canines Lie Dead From Fumes. Pittsburg, Pa.—-It is yet to be actually proven/that a cat has nine lives, but there is a dog in Braddock that has at least three, according to William H. Williams, superintendent of the department of public works there. Mr. Williams asserts he attempted three times to asphyxiate a stray dog last week, and on each occasion the animal walked from the “death chamber” wagging its tail, while forty-five other dogs lay dead about it effects of the gas. The dogs were caught during a cleanup of stray animals in Braddock The “dog with many lives,” as Sup efintendent Williams called it, was caught Monday. The following day it, with sixteen others, was placed in an air-tight inclosure and the gas turned on. After a half hour the door was opened and all dogs were dead, ex cept the one. It waited out. The dog, with twenty-nine others, went thru the ordeal Wednesday and Thursday again, but the one animal survived it all. John Lancaster, chief engineer t the Braddock water works, later attempted to shoot the dog, but it leaped over his shoulder and escaped. When he attempted to catch it, Lancaster slipped and fell, receiving cuts and bruises about the body.