“Peering through the bars of the cell-room at Police Headquarters this morning was one of the most pitiful appearing prisoners that the stationhouse has quarters in many years. The incarcerated is charged with the heinous crime of biting a streetcar conductor in the leg…it’s Napoleon, the thinking bulldog.

‘Nappy’ was taken into custody by Chief Buck at 9 o’clock this morning while Napoleon was sauntering leisurely along East State street. At first Napoleon offered some resistance to the officer but after being shown a copy of the complaint condescended to go along to the police station. On the way, however, he balked a few times.

This is the Charge.

The complaint against Napoleon was made by Corey J. Harvey, 118 Cascadilla avenue, a conductor of the Ithaca Traction Corporation, who alleges that on July 29, Napoleone did willfully and with malice aforethought sink his sharp fangs into the calf of the said conductor’s right leg with such vehemence as to nearly drag the conductor from the platform of the car.

Therefore, Napoleon is charged with assault in the worst degree. Attorney John D. Collins agreed to act as counsel for Napoleon and will endeavor to secure the release of his prisoner on a writ of habeas corpus. The station was besieged this morning with sympathetic persons who offered to go ‘Nappy’s’ bail, but all such offers were refused, pending a conference of Chief Buck, City Judge Crowley, and the complainant, Mr. Harvey.

Must stay in Jail.

Napoleon, sad to say, will be kept in custody, until his case is disposed of. His owners, the members of the Skull fraternity, will probably be asked to furnish a bond that Napoleon shall keep the peace, and he will then be released on his own behavior."

“Napoleon Arrested Just Because He Bit a Conductor: In Solitary Confinement at the Police Station—Attorney Collins Volunteers to Defend Him—Many Offers to Furnish Bail,” Ithaca Journal, August 6, 1914, 6