Show asas riwa rraawww DESERTS FROM INSTITUTE AND DIES IN AGONY SAILOR SUFFERS HORRIBLE DEATH AS RESULT OF DITE OF CUR DOG New Orleans John Higgins an English sailor bitten by a stray dog several weeks ago and who deserted from tho Pasteur Institute stepped Into a saloon at Third and Tchoupltou las streets greeted a number of friends at the bar when suddenly he went mad and began to bark like a dog In less than hour HIggins was dead Hydrophobia was given as lie cause Ho died In great agony and It was all half n dozen of his friends could do to hold HIggins In his last struggles and when Ills actions were those of a raving maniac Hlgglns was 46 years old and had 1 been coming to this uort on different I I e L 1 UNrtl d 1j t W i4 i a AJ titi r f The Dog Turned and Bit Him vessels for years Ho had no rein lives in New Orleans Several weeks ago not far from ills headquarters Hlgglns stopped to pet a stray dog which seemed in need of attention Almost as soon as the mart hall touched the animal the dog turned on hln and bit him onco in the upper lip and again on the right leg Although Al-though tho Injuries were not consul ered severe at the time Higgins friends induced him to go to the Chnrl ty hospital to be examined by surgeons < sur-geons At the hospital Higgins was turned over to the doctors of the Pasteur Pas-teur Institute Ho was treated several sev-eral days when he determined that the wounds were not serious and on his own account left the place before the treatment had hardly begun Higgins left the Institute so it Is said in the face of protests of the surgeons oo far as Is known Higgins suffered no ill effects until seized with n fit in the barroom at the sight of a glass ot water The spasm came upon the man all at once and he began to bark and growl and froth at the mouth Those in the saloon endeavored to hold the man and finally overpowered him and took him to his rooming house where ho died soon afterward He did not regain consciousness after the attack of hydrophobia and continued con-tinued to bark and struggle until tho end The body was taken to the morgue Tho wound on the lip where Higgins had been bitten bad hardly healed Friends of the man who was well liked In the neighborhood In which he lived started a subscription paper and soon raised enough money to give the body proper burial The tramp dog which Inflicted the fatal bites was killed soon after tho incident In-cident by a man who had seen the animal attack Higgins |