OWNERS, TOO.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LVIII, Issue 10356, 17 April 1930, Page 3

OWNERS, TOO.

CLASH AFTER DOG FIGHT. A walkng stick and half a clothes prop were weapons wielded by respectable dog owners at Enfield. N.S.W., recently, after one dog had so badly injured the other than it had to be destroyed, according to evidence at the Burwood Court recently. Percy Richards was charged with having assaulted Rosetta Maroney, and he charged Thomas Maroney and Mrs Maroney with having assaulted him. Mrs Maroney sad that she saw Rchards’s dog running down the street, and her dog ripped open. A little later, when she saw Richards and the dog, she belted the animal on the head with a stick. Richards punched her, hft her son Stanley on the chest with a stick, and then threw it at Stanley’s friend. He grabbed her by the throat, and knock ed her down. She lost consciousness. Richards said that when his dog attacked Maroney’s, he knocked it off with his stick. Mrs Maroney screamed, and he hid for 20 minutes. When he ventured out Mrs Maroney hit him with a stick on the neck. As he was getting up Thomas Maroney knocked him unconscious. Mr Fletcher, S.M., dismissed the charge against Richards, and fined the Maroneys each £2, and ordered* them to pay £3 3s costs each.