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1873: Superintendent James J. Kelso and the Great NYPD Cat Hunt

Posted: 10th March 2020 by The Hatching Cat in Cats in the Mews
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When a Maltese cat owned by NYPD Superintendent James J. Kelso was reportedly stolen from his home on East 55th Street, the cat burglary made the headlines in several national newspapers.

1928: Mary, the Rockaway Beach Cat of Hammels Who Saved Her 5 Kittens

Posted: 21st February 2020 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Stories, Cats in the Mews
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A veteran mother cat with strong maternal instincts saved her five kittens when a two-story frame house caught fire in the Hammels section of Rockaway Beach.

1942: John Pierre Chates, the Cat Who Came to Stapleton, Staten Island With a Passport

Posted: 21st February 2020 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Stories, Cats in the Mews
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“This is about a refugee ship, 396 refugees from Lisbon. It’s the usual stuff–a baby was born, a man died, a princess born in Flint, Michigan, escaped across Spain and a guy had to get a passport for a cat.”–NY Daily News, 1942

1893: A Carroll Gardens Cat and a Tree Grow in Brooklyn

Posted: 19th February 2020 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Stories, Cats in the Mews
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On February 18, 1893, a young boy rescued a cat that had been stuck high in a maple tree at the corner of Court Street and First Place in the Carroll Gardens section of Brooklyn.

1902: The Cypress Hills Cat Family That Lived in a Church Organ on Fulton Street

Posted: 17th February 2020 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Stories, Cats in the Mews
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A seemingly uncanny mystery of the church organ, which had puzzled the organist and boys’ choir of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration for more than a week, was solved when a cat walked out from the organ.

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