£1-A-DAY DOG

Greymouth Evening Star, 9 March 1933, Page 4

£1-A-DAY DOG

WIDOW'S GRIEF AT DESTRUCTION

LONDON. January 22

The terrier dog whose mistress was ordered to pay a. fine- of £1 for every day it. remained alive after she had .< I'.isT-d to have it destroyed has now been killed.

Mrs Ann Gun-dry, (he owner, was summoned to appear at Caversham Police Court on Saturday for failing to comply with the order to have her dog (teemed to he a dangerous animal —des i royed. but she did not attend.

Police-sergeant Bird told the magistrates that the dog had been killed the previous afternoon. Witness spent more than an hour and a half in persuading Mrs Gun-dry that, it would he In lier io have the 1 dog destroyed. She was grief-slrieken. ’The chairman (Mr C. 11. Palmer), who (old the sergetint he had behaved ’.cry tact fully, said that the magistities did not wish to persecute Mrs Guialry. They would rescind the fine llte.\ had previously imposed, as well :■ Ihe Ol her penult les.

M's Giim.li?, <t widow, living at. Th'.: l>le\\er(, (toring-on-Thaiiiev, was '’i i ' ina 11> l ummoncd lir t November for not keeping Ihc dog under proper control after' it. had bitten people. Tin- magistrates then ordered her io have it. destroyed. As she did not do o she was .'at tn moiled a second time ami lined .155. 'llll' magistrates then informed her that, if she- did not. have the dog destroyed within two Rays she would have Io pay I‘l a day while Hie dog remained alive.