Usually the magistrate sent him to the "Island," for thirty days and then Gottlieb would get him out on a writ of habeas corpus.

Some of these writs attracted the attention of the bar and several appear in the reports.

I am under the impression that we secured his release some twenty-nine separate times.

At last he died in a fit of apoplexy caused by overeating; and when we administered his estate we found that he had already laid by, in a comparatively brief career, the very creditable sum of forty-one thousand dollars.
The "Human Dog" was but a clever variation of the "Crust-Thrower" -- the beggar who tosses a dirty crust of bread into the gutter when no one is looking and then falls upon it with a cry of fierce joy.
These "crust-throwers" have plied their trade for over six hundred years and were known in England and Flanders long before the discovery of America.

Gottlieb was very shrewd at devising schemes that came just within the law and used to amuse himself by so doing in his leisure moments.