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Show INTERRUPT SAVAGERY AT . A DOCJIGIII Police MaKe Twenty-nine Arrests n Basement of State Street Saloon, While bulldoa battled avaij. thirl) men looked on In delight. In a dimly lighted calls Twa? of th Luxu saloon In ltat tret. tx kw ffaM-ond South, a few nilnutf (Wore mldn'Hht Haturday night, and cheered and applauded aa th eiirag.-d animals tore at csi'h other' thnmia. see-klng the death grip. Then th police broke In upon the scene of ba rbarous a musemrii t . a ml guarding alt t-atta, arrested twenty-nlnf men, two of wtiom am held under Hue horda to anewer lu ttie r tiara of conducting con-ducting a dg light, and the oilier, nnder lis Imil ea4 n. charged with witnessing the fight. Polite 0-rgt. John J. Roberts and Patrolmen Pa-trolmen Orundvig, ronynrs, burton and barker carrh-d out the raid. The dogs In tho Improvised pit belong to J $. rtrrne. a bartender, Z years vhi, and Thomas flfciin, a harness maker, 1'i year old. Th animals had fought for (ififiy an hour, and were sllpptry with hloud from rountlrse wounds. Ounn s dg had hla )aws st In a vise Ilk grip on th leg of Byrne's fighter, which in turn was slowly choking th life out of Ounn' with a throat grip that would faava killed tha animal In a few minute. AaYtt Inatincts Jfot Batlsfled " The dogs had been fighting o fiercely that they were compelfi-d from time to tlm to stop and gain their. brvatU and Strength lo continue th last tie. The doge were willing to get out of the pit. but according to the polh-e the savagery sav-agery of the men had not been sat Is fled and they ware compelled to uontlnu th fight. Ounn and Byrne were taken to tha city jail sod were booked at oollve heanqua tera on npn charge. Their ball was fixed at SU each bv Uesk Hergeent John Lc n si. Kach man waa able to secure, the money an J was released under order to appear In police court at 3 o'clock this afternoon. Tha dog wera taken from tha pit by the policemen, who had difficulty In breaking tha vis Ilk grip of their jaws, and were taken to police headquarters where their wounds were wsshed out. and the animals wera given a chance to ret. They will be Introduced tdyiepnty Froeecutor William B. Del Ion an evtdeqc In th prosecution. One Resista Arrest. . "Red" Sweeney, known to tha poHce aa "Denver Red, whs arrested as a side lanu to the df fight on a rharge of reslMtlng an officer. While Patrolman Martin waa placing Sweeney under arrest ar-rest Sweeney swung on the officer, putting put-ting htm out of com ml mi on for the time. The arrest wss rrcied by Patrolman Patrol-man Wire, who came to Martin' aid. Th men arrested at the dog fight aa pectntora. who were released upon depositing de-positing Ita ball each, aav their name as Art Hulllvan. Art Cbey. Jame ("tres-ley, ("tres-ley, Klmer Kaslcr. W. T. Billlngsl, Thomas Iiinn. Henry Jnhnsey, y. L, Bennett, William Haundera, ('. J. Carp-well, Carp-well, R. Rlrl ardson, R. Vaneer, R. Tll-ton, Tll-ton, Duk Smith. 4- Powell. U 11 ore ley, P. C, bangol, John Kllsaerald, Thomaa Nevana, ticorg Miller. Kred Anderson. John Williams, J. A. Vanderheck, I . Wilson, Wil-son, Robert Keara, J U. Kvane and Hoy Ludlow. fr. If) B. Beatty of th atat humane aoclety anada an examination of the dogs at th police station yesterday and declared de-clared them to ba In a pitiable condition. Ir. Beat iv waa Indignant that such a fight should take place In tba city, and complimented th police department for It efficient work In tip raid, resulting In the arrest of the principals and Witnesses Wit-nesses of the brutal affsir. W. S. Dalton. assistant city prosecutor, after consul 1 1 ng legal aut horlt lea. say that a fin of VOO. or Imprisonment for ton days may be Imposed by the court upon each principal, and upon each spectator, spec-tator, for aiding and abetting the cruelty. In the event of conviction In police court. Dr. Beatty will take a persona) lntereat In following and aiding the prosecution in the lntereat of humanity. |