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Show THIS GOAT WAS ON THE JOB Burglar Laughed at Watchdog, but- Pugnacious Billy Spilled HI Blood. After very carefully nvoldlng a sav-ngo sav-ngo watchdog, chained to tho rear of tho house ho was about to enter, a porch climber camo to grief, and narrowly nar-rowly escaped being captured by a pet billy goat In tho front yard of tho Italian club, says a San Francisco dispatch. dis-patch. Gaining entrance to tho second story by means of a ladder, tho burglar collected col-lected together 2C0 in coin, a few gold rings, and odd trinkets, nnd slid down a porch post to tho ground. As his feet touched terra flrma, tho goat, whose private grazing patch had been Invaded, spied the intruder. Also tho Intruder spied Billy. Then started an unequal foot race for the nearest fence. The burglar lost lost the raoe, great patches of cuticle, the major portion por-tion of his clothing, and several tea-cupfuls tea-cupfuls of blood. He finally managed to scale tho fenco, and disappear in the darkness with tho loot, which was the property of John Regalia, Antono Ram-bonlo, Ram-bonlo, and Tony Vanoll. Sirs. E. II. Pond, daughter-in-law of formor mayor Pond, of San Francisco, whoso local homo has been Invaded by burglars twice during the past fortnight, attempted to buy tho goat from tho Italians. Ho is not for snlo, howover, although tho savngo watchdog, watch-dog, which slept through tho entlro confusion, can bo had for tho asking. |