Show BRINDLE BULLDOG LOSES MASTER AND COMMITS SUICIDE Whether It was because because- he had been disappointed In ambition or or merely left behind by a careless master is not known but he he-a he a bulldog bulldog- succeeded bulldog succeeded after many attempts in killing himself by leaping from the Northwestern Elevated railway structure at Wilson avenue In a human being it would have been called suicide Sunday lunday afternoons the Wilson avenue terminus is a lively enough place but in the half hour that this dog was trying to carry out his design the neighborhood ran high with excitement passengers forgot forgot for for- got their cars and the elevated service temporarily went out of commis commission ion on The dog log a brindle bull with one tooth missing first was noticed at 1 o'clock out side the new entrance to the surface platform platform plat plat- form of the terminal loop He was walkIng walk walk- Ing back a and forth r stopping only to tp scan gf every S g who entered e Finally n he himself walked In and for some minutes sat Q his haunches gazing curiously at the girl behind the wicket of the turn turn- stile Then he lie started forward and with one eye furtively fixed on the ticket girl trotted silently through the turnstile on to the platform I A few minutes later a a. shout went up and railway hands began run running from all directions toward the surface platform plat plat- form torm The dog had leaped from the platform squarely onto the deadly third rail between the tracks But though badly burped burned he e had not been killed He was surrounded by employees and chased out of ot the station and half way down the block Tf The employees no s sooner o had returned ur mJ sg to their el duties than n a fresh alarm I was sounded This time the bulldog was seen mounting the the platform The animal anima leaped from platform to track and from track to platform employees following and hurdling the live third rail with the utmost abandon At V last t the trainmen gave up the h pursuit pursuit pur pur- ph f su suit and t telephoned to the ep police Rc of lg the town hall station The dog left to himself himself him him- self climbed back to the platform and trotted to the extreme end north where he sat down and contemplated the possibilities of the situation Finally he arose and carefully clambered around the end endot of ot the platform railing and gained a ledge on which he paused to regard the distance to the ground below At this moment the gong of ot the police pollee patrol sounded In the distance and then tilen charged nearer and nearer The bulldog looked in the direction of the approachIng approach- approach Ing blue wagon and kept his eye on It un- un ill dl It slowed down and uniformed blue-uniformed men began to slip out Then gathering his legs the dog took one look belt below w wand and dived head first from the structure The police pollee arrived Just in time to pick pickup pickup pickup up a quivering little body that soon straightened out in In death A trainman said he tho thought the animal was was was' mad but buta a police surgeon made an examination and said there was no evidence of rabies Its Just a plain suicide he said anda and anda a suicide it stands In the report that went to headquarters Chicago Chicago Tribune |