A FAITHFUL DOG
WATCH OVER MASTER'S BODY (raon oue on cobebsposbeti^ SYDNEY. May 28. A striking example of the loyalty of a dog for his master was reveotea in the Coroner's Court this week. The dog watched over his master's dead body for several days, and when a man attempted to enter the house, the doc rushed savagely at him. Stanley Thomas Wolfe told the Coroner that he called at the house of the dead man, James Hillen. but received no response to his knock. He thett climbed into the house by a window and saw Hillen lying on the floor, with his he3d in an oven. A small sxllqr terrier dog was nearby. The dog had apparently obtained fresh air finom under the back door.
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Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22110, 4 June 1937, Page 11
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