DANGEROUS DOGS

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 101, 26 October 1934, Page 10

DANGEROUS DOGS

ONE TO BE DESTROYED

I Stated to be a Cross between a bullIdog and a diugo, a dog which was the subject of a case in the Magistrate's Court today was ordered to be destroyed. Eric Smith was charged with owning the dog, which attacked Pearl Unice Wood, her limbs being endangered. He did not appear, but wrote a letter of explanation. The evidence of Pearl Wood, aged 13, and of Ernest Whiterod, aged 13, was that on October 8 the dog owned by Smith attacked the girl without provocation and bit her on the thigh. In convicting the defendant, a relief worker, Mr. Stilwell said that Smith seemed to be very much attached to the dog, but he did not think he should be allowed to keep it. In addition to ordering Smith to pay costs he made a» order that the animal be destroyed. Bert Frederick Fox was charged frith. being the owner of a dog which attacked F. D. Simmonds, his limbs being endangered. Ho was convicted and ordered to pay costs, including 17s 6d damage done by the dog. .' ■ ' Senior-Sergeaut X A. Dempsey said that the dog rushed at a messenger in. Webb Street, bit him on the calf of the le", and tore his trousers. Fox saidat first that he would have the dog destroyed, but later he wanted to regis- " °For the defendant, Mr. G. C. Kent said th.it the dog, a young somewhat spirited animal, was presented to *ox, a relief worker, by a friend in Masterton Fox took the dog to his work at the Mount Cook School, where it.regularly played with many of the children. Fox had no knowledge of the offence, and had received no other complaints about the dog. He would pay for the damaged troufers and send the dog back to the people from whom he had got it.