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Show POLICE MASCOT IN A THRILLING FIGHT Terrier Encounters Bull Dog; Master, Police and Animals Go to Jail. As the climax of an embrogllo that included two dogs, two policemen and an Indignant citizen as participants and 200 persons as audience, E. B. Eeardly, owner of one of tho dogs, was arrested at the intersection of Second South and Main streets yesterday afternoon on a charge of cruelty to an animal. The animal ani-mal was Bunjo, the fox terrier mascot of the police department. He started It, and thereby qualified as a starter equal to the Job as starter coach in an auto garage or a suffragette riot. Something about tho other dog, a much-prlxed bull, offended Bunjo's sensi; of law and order. He collared the bulldog. bull-dog. The bulldog did not understand Bunjo's growl of authority or chose to Ignore It. Ho resisted. Bunjo promptly applied a hammerloek that brought forth a vowl from the prisoner. Then tho thing happened. Bunjo shot up from the earth to alight far out upon tho hard pavement. Tho toe of Beardly's boot is said to have propelled hlrn to a flight that belled the terrier's nature and past record. It was at this moment that Patrolmen Davis and Thompson entered the melee. They arrested Bcardly. Bunjo promptly reapplied the hammerloek to his prisoner. pris-oner. When the auto patrol arrived both dogs went Into It with the men. Rome onlookers said that tho bulldog Jumped In after his master, pulling Bunjo with him. Others say that the little terrier was plainly .seen to force tho larger do Into the patrol by an extra tightening of tho hammerloek. Bcardly furnished $10 bnll for his appearance ap-pearance In court, and. much to the disgust dis-gust of Bunjo, the bulldog wna allowed to go with his master. |