BITTEN BY ALSATIAN

Greymouth Evening Star, 8 August 1936, Page 11

BITTEN BY ALSATIAN

DESTRUCTION ORDER.

[PEB PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

AUCKLAND, August 7.

“With a dog such as this, k ai ' m might happefi at any time,” said Mr. Wyvern Wilson, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court, when making an ordei for the destruction of an Alsatian dog belonging to Raymond Cecil Harding, against whom four charges of being in possession of a dangerous dog weie preferred. . Evidence was given by two motoicvclists that the dog chased their machines, while a nine-year-old boy gave evidence of having been bitten. A gir described how she had been knocked off her bicycle and bitten on the thighPolice evidence was given that the defendant had repeatedly been warned to keep the dog under control. Defendant described the dog as playful rather than dangerous. it was a prize animal kept for show purposes. , „ ••A dog which has jumped on the back of a boy, and which has bitten a bov and left marks for two months is dangerous,” said the magistrate. Defendant was quite incapable of controlling the dog, and had had warnings time after time. The dog was a menace to children. An order was made for the destruction of the dog. and the defendant was ordered to pay costs.