Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 March 1905 — A Case Of Horse Hari-Kari. [ARTICLE]

A Case Of Horse Hari-Kari.

A case of a horse prefering death to captivity, after the manner of the Japsjand commit ing harikari as nearly as practicable in their manmr, oooured here Sunday morning, The horse was an ancient steed which Uncle Bobby White lately picked up, down about Converse, this state and together with whom he journeyed up **bere, by easy stsg-s, Saturday he sold the horse to Logan Wood, of Parr. The price is probably a secret known only to those two, but pro. bablyit was fully a dollar or a dollar and a half, io r each year of the horse’s age.

The hone was tied in Uncle Bobby’s shed, back of Hardy’s livery staUe and Logan said he might take it to Parr, that night or leave it until Sunday morning. He left it, and in the morning the horse was gone. Login had Sheriff O’Conner searching for it most of Sunday, on the idea that it mijiht have been stolen. In the afternoon however, the remains of a horse that were scattered pretty nearly all the way from the railroad liver bridge east of town to the depot, were identified as the lost horse. It seems to have got out of the shed, walked down the track to the bridge and deliberately waited to be struck by the nerth bound 4:30 a- m. train; though it might have got fast in the bridge andwaß unable to escape. It was so thoroughly butchered that the horse meat peddlers of Hammond could have gathered up the pieces and sold them out, in sizes to suit without ever touching them with saw or knife. The hoise was spotted to start with, but the spots were all knockoff, when the locomotive hit it.