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A Cat’s Execution.

Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, March 27, 1901

     Jerry, the fighting black cat of the fish commission steamer Albatross, after 16 years of service, recently met another black cat and died as a result of the encounter. The ship’s crew buried the mascot, wrapped in the flag, with martial honors, and held a court-martial over his slayer. The later was sentenced to walk the plank, and after he had been weighted with iron the sentence was carried into execution.

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