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4 GWYN TOMPKINS FEROCIOUS RABBIT SARATOGA, N. Y., August 18. There is mourning around Gwyn Tompkins stable now located at Saratoga. A great sorrow befell the establishment this morning and has gripped every exercise lioy, rubber, and even the genial Gwyn himself. The cause of transforming joy into sorrow is the sudden demise of the stables mascot, an ordinary rabbit not ordinary in the tense that it was the only known rabbit that fitted the legend of "spitting in a bulldogs eye." Fighting dogs was the rabbits specialty and he had all the canines of surrounding stables buffaloed to a frazzle; large or small, it niatteted little to the Tompkins rabbit, all were vanquished and put to rout when they came near its territory. He was particularly antagonistic to Sam C. HUdreths much prized police dog, a gift to the Rancocas Stables trainer from Hilly Pinkcrton. The rabbit would give the Rancocas dog battle immediately it spied him and would invariably put the dog to rout by nipping it about the legs. This morning he varied his mode of attack after thu dog screened his legs by lying flat on the ground. The rabbit, unable to get a nip at his legs, got more ambitious and bit through the dogs cheek. The latter winced from the pain and snapped his massive jaws over the rabbits neck aud killed it instantly. During the period that the rabbit held I lie. race track mascot championship he watt as much talked of as a Morvicii and brought hundreds of visitors to the Tompkins stable, uuxioii-i fr a close up of the wonderful little animal. Tompkins this aiieiuoon "said It- was a plain case of suicide on the part of the rabbit.
