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Vintage Mugshot PHOTO … Circa 1924: Pep, “The Cat-Murdering Dog”
Eastern State Penitentiary ^ | circa 1924 | Eastern State Penitentiary

Posted on 09/21/2014 2:37:41 PM PDT by DogByte6RER

Circa 1924: Pep, “The Cat-Murdering Dog”

1924: Pep, “The Cat-Murdering Dog”

Pep "The Cat-Murdering Dog" was a black Labrador Retriever admitted to Eastern State Penitentiary on August 12, 1924. Prison folklore tells us that Pennsylvania Governor Gifford Pinchot used his executive powers to sentence Pep to Life Without Parole for killing his wife’s cherished cat. Prison records support this story: Pep’s inmate number (C-2559) is skipped in prison intake logs and inmate records. The Governor told a different story. He said Pep had been sent to Eastern to act as a mascot for the prisoners. He and the Warden, Herbert “Hard-Boiled” Smith, were friends. Pep was much loved, and lived among the inmates at Eastern State for about a decade. While the truth may never be known, in photographs Pep—with his head down and ears back--looks GUILTY.


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To: GBA
Lol. Here's another:

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21 posted on 09/21/2014 4:09:44 PM PDT by Jed Eckert (Wolverines!!)
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To: DogByte6RER
Mug shots: Hooded Inmate

Photograph of a hooded inmate at the Eastern State Penitentiary in Pennsylvania which is considered the world’s first true “Penitentiary.” According to the Eastern State Penitentiary (now a U.S. National Historical Landmark and museum) website: In order to encourage penitence – or true regret – in the hearts of criminals, inmates would spend their entire sentence in solitary confinement. On the rare occasion when an inmate left his cell, a hood was placed over his head to ensure his identity would remain anonymous. Ideally, no inmate would ever see the face of another inmate.

22 posted on 09/21/2014 4:18:45 PM PDT by Brother Cracker (You are more likely to find krugerrands in a Cracker Jack box than 22 ammo at Wal-Mart)
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To: DogByte6RER

I have never before seen a dog with ‘gunfighter’ eyes!!


23 posted on 09/21/2014 4:22:47 PM PDT by TalBlack (Evil doesn't have a day job.)
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To: Jed Eckert
Lol! One of his best.

At one place I worked, if you wanted to mess with someone, you'd walk by humming or singing some gawd awful song and they'd be stuck with it playing in their heads for a while.

That Far Side cartoon had the opposite effect.

You could walk by and say "Oh please, oh please" and they'd start laughing.

The Far Side was cool that way. Hard to believe, but Jan. 1, 2015 will be 20 years since he retired.

Retired, but never replaced.

(Fwiw, rumor has it Pep was set up.)

24 posted on 09/21/2014 4:54:31 PM PDT by GBA (The melting pot has been overturned)
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To: twister881

Ah...so Curiosity killed the cat.

That makes Pep’s fate even sadder. Labs are loyal to a fault and took the rap for his sis.


25 posted on 09/21/2014 5:16:31 PM PDT by berdie
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To: Fai Mao

I read A Canticle for Leibowitz many years ago. I don’t recall any cats. I recall it being a pretty good book, and I may read it again eventually, but not to learn anything about cats.


26 posted on 09/21/2014 6:48:21 PM PDT by ozzymandus
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To: DogByte6RER

He a good boy, he be gettin’ his life turned around.


27 posted on 09/21/2014 7:01:53 PM PDT by IMR 4350
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To: ozzymandus

“I read A Canticle for Leibowitz many years ago. I don’t recall any cats. I recall it being a pretty good book, and I may read it again eventually, but not to learn anything about cats.”

The story about the cat occurs when the abbot of the prior of St Lebowitz is trying to talk the woman along with her small child with a broken leg and suffering from radiation sickness out of going to the euthanasia camp after Texarkana (The capital of North America)has been bombed. The priest talks about his cat that was injured and how everyone said he should put it out of its misery. The story is horrific as the boy (Who would become the priest) shot the cat but it wouldn’t die and kept crawling out of the grave and he ended up having to beat it to death with a shovel because the cat simply wanted to die with the dignity that God gave a cat. The point of the story is that pain is a part of life. We consecrate our pain and make it Holy by allowing God to help us deal with it and by acknowledging that it is a temptation to despair and refusing yield to the temptation and glorify God instead.

It is the best chapter of the book. I have wondered when reading it if it was not an even that really happened in the authors life


28 posted on 09/21/2014 7:04:16 PM PDT by Fai Mao (Genius at Large)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

I cannot even countenance answering that person’s post. I don’t find anything funny, witty, logical, or any positive trait at all about killing cats or dogs.

In a way I can understand what kids do with animals sometimes, because they are just kids and don’t understand a lot of things.

But I think any adult who advocates the outright killing of them simply because they are a cat or a dog, is damaged goods.

If the animal is aggressive, feral or destructive in some ways, I can understand.

If one has to kill them to eat them, I can understand. (All of this discounts concepts of people who hunted down and exterminated wolves or large cats who had killed or eaten someone. I can understand a lot of joy there. Some contexts of warfare also discounted in this as well...)

But to make it an enjoyable excursion?

To kill an animal like a cat or a dog simply because it is such a thing is what God made it indicates a level of sadism and inner disturbance of someone who adheres to that line of thought. I find that deeply disturbing in an adult. That tells me a lot about someone.

It is possible the person was trolling, but it is equally possible they are both a sadist and a troll.

Makes me shudder.


29 posted on 09/21/2014 7:11:04 PM PDT by rlmorel (The Media's Principles: Conflict must exist. Doesn't exist? Create it. Exists? Exacerbate it.)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Were they your dogs?


30 posted on 09/21/2014 7:15:31 PM PDT by GGpaX4DumpedTea (I am a Tea Party descendant...steeped in the Constitutional Republic given to us by the Founders)
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To: Fai Mao

YOU ARE.SOOO WRONG! They are lovely, lovable beasts! Now apologize...

kg/nancy


31 posted on 09/21/2014 7:19:33 PM PDT by krunkygirl (force multiplier in effect...)
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To: Fai Mao

Wretched! kg/nancy


32 posted on 09/21/2014 7:21:34 PM PDT by krunkygirl (force multiplier in effect...)
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To: TalBlack
I have never before seen a dog with ‘gunfighter’ eyes!!

He's lookin' for the man that shot his Paw.

33 posted on 09/21/2014 7:38:41 PM PDT by kanawa
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To: GGpaX4DumpedTea

No. Some guy’s dogs that lived about a mile away. However, the law stated you could shoot animals that were attacking your animals.

I’m just glad no little kids were in the yard playing with the cat at the time, the dogs might have attacked them.


34 posted on 09/22/2014 7:06:26 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Verginius Rufus

There is a community on the edge of Seattle and lake Washington named Ballinger. How it got its name, or whom it is named after, I do not Know.


35 posted on 09/22/2014 7:28:18 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: afraidfortherepublic; FredZarguna

According to Wikipedia, Lake Ballinger was so named after it was purchased in 1901 by Richard Achilles Ballinger, the future Secretary of the Interior, who named it after his father Richard Ballinger. It had been called Lake McAleer before then after an earlier owner of the lake.


36 posted on 09/22/2014 8:40:06 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: afraidfortherepublic; FredZarguna

According to Wikipedia, Lake Ballinger was so named after it was purchased in 1901 by Richard Achilles Ballinger, the future Secretary of the Interior, who named it after his father Richard Ballinger. It had been called Lake McAleer before then after an earlier owner of the lake.


37 posted on 09/22/2014 8:40:07 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: OldNewYork
"...And he doesn’t care. Give him another cat, and he’ll do it again."

Laughing my fat, white, straight, conservative a__ off! Best FR post in years. Way, WAY too funny for the vast bulk of these cat-enabling nekulturniy refuseniks.

LOL

8^\

38 posted on 09/23/2014 1:43:37 PM PDT by Gargantua ("...Fee tine a mady..." ;^)
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To: Gargantua

:) I like both cats and dogs, but when you hear over and over again from cat-fanciers describe how great their cats are because they’re playful like a puppy, it makes you wonder. And I think I missed the executive order making this a cat nation, even if cat people are also dominant on this site.

Thanks, glad you got a laugh out of it. I hope I didn’t offend anybody, but it seems like the warden of the imprisoned dog had a sense of humor too.


39 posted on 09/23/2014 2:45:45 PM PDT by OldNewYork
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