Show CATS CAT'S REMORSE FOR MURDER OF CANARY I LEADS IT TO OWNER I Remorse for the murder he had committed committed committed com com- led him to journey thirty miles over a road he had never traveled be before re reto to whimper out his sorrow against the the- knees of the man he loved and that re remarkable remarkable remarkable re- re feat of ot trailing by Pluto the biggest blackest blackest- and sometimes of ot cats led to his forgiveness Friday by Franz Frank Franl says sas the New York Press Franz is boss cook of a Nassau street restaurant and he is known as much for his truth as as for his skill with pots and pans pant So when he says that Pluto journeyed journeyed journeyed jour jour- to Nassau street from a point fifteen fifteen teen miles beyond Maspeth Franz's Franz s friends believe him And mind you jou Pluto Pluto Plu Plu- to had never been to the restaurant be before be- be fore Pluto not only seems to have nine Jives Ives but a a scent of unparalleled keenness keen keen- ness At first Frank could not believe that the cat at of his home was the one he found mewing at the door of the restaurant rant ater an absence of three days But he ha Identified Pluto by three things things his his size size his ut utter er blackness save for a white spot under the chin and his clipped cUpped tail tall Pluto was reared on Franks Frank's little farm He was well fed and grew laz lazy never wandering from the house except when he spied pled a bird perched on a bush near by Then Pluto would sneak up but he was wasso wasso so IO fat he couldn't couldn t leap far and he never was able to get a sparrow for supper His Ills master however had thirty canaries D anti nd Pluto often would sit in the bird bird- room and e eye eje e the yellow jellow fellows with gluttonous glittering eyes eves One day he got up to the cage and with unexplained cleverness opened the cage age He lie caught a a bird and soon Pluto was purring contentedly contentedly con con- and eying a few Cew feathers that were wore too to pass his palate Mrs Frank discovered the loss loss' of the bird and there was as enough circumstantial evi evi- evidence dence to convict Pluto of the killing She feared her husband would shoot I Pluto and so she sent her hei two sons to I carry the cat fifteen miles away and leave leavo him hm In the woods The They say they did so when Frank reached home that night he heas was as grieved sorely The longing was greater next da day daj when Pluto did not fol tol- tollow low his master to the surface surface- surface car car as asu u usual Cats Cat j have ha returned long tong distances to their homes but the thee records do not tell tellof tellof of ot a rat fat who when lost has gone to to a strange place far Car faraway away away In search of his master That is what Pluto did Friday morning when Frank reached the restaurant res- res he saw Pluto standing penitently at th the door waiting for him The cat waved his stubby taU tall and set up a a. howl that made Frank shout with delight The cook cool packed Pluto in a bag and took him hint home No INO sooner had Pluto got Inside the house than he darted for tor the bird cage cage That's him said Frank whereupon he gave a severe beating to Pluto in the hope of making him forget the way ay to open the the bird c cage ge |