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To: epicure who wrote (4536)	11/20/1997 9:57:00 AM
From: jpmac	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

Here's an entry for the pet column. The cow wasn't famous, not an elsie or anything. But the killer of the cow is a prominent figure. A possible sub-pet column: famous people who tortured animals in thier youth... .c The Associated Press CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (Nov. 19) - In 1965, someone left a frightened, 250-pound Black Angus calf on the dome of Thomas Jefferson's Rotunda at the University of Virginia. The animal was tranquilized for the trip down, but died within hours. Now the culprit has owned up and paid for his crime. Alfred Berkeley III, president of the Nasdaq stock market, admitted his role at a reunion dinner last year, a story recounted in this summer's university Alumni News magazine. The article drew the attention of former Sheriff George Bailey, who investigated the incident. Bailey called Berkeley, then sent him a bill for the time his investigators spent trying to solve the case. Berkeley paid up with a donation to the Western Albemarle Rescue Squad. ''I guess he sort of felt guilty,'' said Bailey, who delivered the $1,755 check to the squad Monday night. A 1966 English graduate, Berkeley was trying to one-up his father, Dr. Alfred Berkeley Jr., who was said to have hung stuffed monkeys in a tree outside the university president's office before earning his medical degree in 1940. Berkeley and four fellow undergraduates had to coax the calf up narrow spiral staircases to get to the Rotunda dome. It died the same day it was brought down. Raymond Bice Jr., the university's history officer, said the incident made national headlines and brought hate mail to the university. He also said Berkeley isn't the first former student to suggest having a role in the matter. ''Over the years, about a dozen people have intimated that they did it,'' Bice said. AP-NY-11-19-97 0727EST