DOG SEIZED FOR WAGES

Greymouth Evening Star, 18 December 1934, Page 5

DOG SEIZED FOR WAGES

THEFT CHARGE DISMISSED. | How a servant seized her mistress’s pet dog as security for wages alleged to be due was told at Marylebone recently, when May Hogan, 22, of Talbot-road, Bayswater, was charged with stealing a dachshund dog, value £2O, and a dog-collar and lead, worth 5/6, from the flat of her mistress, Mrs Ferendo Swift, of Elginmansions, Maida-vale. Mrs Swift said that she dismissed the accused on Wednesday: They could not agree as to the amount due, because of certain deductions to be made for breakages, and the accused left. On Thursday she called again, and again left without an agreement being reached. “Directly she had gone, I missed my dog,” Mrs Swift added, “and I heard that the accused had carried him away in her arms.” Later she had a telephone message from the accused saying that she could have her dog when she paid the wages due. She went with a. police officer and saw her dog at the accused’s address. The accused said that there was no agreement as to breakages. When Mrs Swift refused to pay her full wages and the dog followed her she picked him up and ’phoned her mistress that she could have her dog when she paid her her wages. The magistrate said she had no right to seize a. dog as distress for wages, but it was not larceny, and the charge would be dismissed.