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Show 1 i I DOG fIGHT TAKES PLACE DOWNTOWN I ' IN DAYLIGHT HOURS OF SATURDAY JHi v A very " select" dog fight party was . 'H brought to a sudden conclusion Satur-CM Satur-CM day afternoon at 4:30 o'clock, when -""Jj 'three policemen broke into a room over '? fBeiser's jewelry store at 12 East First , 4 I South street, and placed under arrest ;fonr young men, who ' were battling 'Jritwo laTge-sized bulldogs. Meu aud $ ;dogs were taken to police headquarters Those arrested wero G. M. Ilebbard, J. E. Eussell, Peter Targhett and J. M. Tonahan. Ilebbard and Targhett furnished fur-nished bail at $50 each and wore released, re-leased, while Russell was released on his own recognizance, as he had noth-ii noth-ii iing to do with getting up the party, B't Jjand Monahan was locked up in tDc U 'L Mty jail. -X r Word was received at police hcad-' hcad-' quarters shortly before 4:30 o'clock . that there was a dog fight going on j md. the room above Reiser's jewelry . . . Btoro, judging from the yelping that lH W8S 'ncr on Foliccmeu .Curran, Rip-11' Rip-11' I Hnd Tinges wore sent to the place ,.tn Ho investigate. Tho officers had no , i trouble locating the room where the fight was taking place, as tho hubbub could bo plainly heard some distance. The officers did not stop to rap or use any formalities, but walked right in. There they found two large-sized bulldogs fighting for all they wero worth, and the four young men watching watch-ing tho excitement. One officer stood in tho door to proyont tho guilty parties par-ties escaping, while- the other two stopped the fight, which was accom- Slishcd with no littlo difficulty. One og was quite badly chewed up as tho result of tho battle. Ilebbard, who claimed ownership of tho dog which was getting tho worst of tho fight, said ho was going to take his dog out of town and ho was just giving him a tryout to learn whether ho was any good or not. For-ncraons to fight dogs in a building on ono of the main streets of the city at such an hour of the day is a thin" which causes much surprise to the police, as usually when these fights take place thev aro pulled off in tho outlying districts, whero (ho risk of police detection is but small. |