Dog Torture

At Christmas time mean acts seem exceptionally vicious. In Manhattan one William Heimsberger sold all the Christmas presents of his five children and bought liquor. In Washington some one sent to a young bride a Christmas box which exploded, killing the girl and her baby brother.

Just before Christmas a little white dog whimpered in a St. Louis alley. A woman approached it, found it scrawny and starving, suddenly noticed to her horror that its lips were sewn together with heavy cord. The Humane Society of Missouri was notified. Robert F. Sellar, secretary of the society, declared last week that he had gone to the dog and instantly put it to death. From all over the country, incensed humanitarians wired promises of reward to him who should find the torturer. Last week the rewards totaled $3,000, not including a $500 reward which the Humane Society offered to the woman who found the dog and who has since been missing.

St. Louis officials were greatly concerned. A lieutenant of detectives was assigned to the dog case. He discovered nothing. From Texas, J. Waddy ("Hot Dog") Tate, irrepressible Mayor of Dallas, wired:

"If you catch the scoundrel who sewed up that poor dog's mouth as reported in the press, ship him to Dallas. We have a way of taking care of those fellows."

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