INFURIATED ALSATIAN

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 6 March 1935, Page 8

INFURIATED ALSATIAN

five children: attacked. TWO POLICEMEN MAULED. An infuriated Alsatian, dog terrorised the residents of a street in Leichhardt, Sydney, recently, and savagely attacked five children and two adults before it was captured. The two policemen who finally overpowered it had a stern battle with the infuriated animal and both- were mauled. None of the children were badly injured. The dog was believed to be a stray. Several children were ploying in a street when a. dog, with bared fangs and slavering jaws, tore down the road and dashed in among them. Snapping and snarling, it bounded at the children. In a moment the happy throng became panic-stricken, and the children ran in all directions screaming with terror.

The dog first attacked Nancy Franklin, aged eight, knocked her to the ground, and sank its teeth in her right arm. Leaving her screaming with pain and shock, it bounded at Margaret Hinds, aged 12, seized her by the shoulder and dragged her down.

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Several of the children had managed to scramble over near-by fences and take refuge in neighbouring houses, but the dog chased Leslie Lees, aged 11. and knocked him down as the boy wa.s hearing a gate. It then pursued a man named Francis Cividin, bounded upon his back and sent him crashing to the roadway. Mrs. Daniels, who lives near- the scene of the attack, had just left the front gate when the dog first ran among the frightened children. She was pushing a pram, in which was her son Oolin, aged three, and she wa.ieading Roy, aged five, by the hand. After knocking down Cividin the dog attacked her and knocked down Roy, hut she managed to shake it off and pushed her scared sons inside her gate. By this time the street had been abandoned to the dog and, snarling menaeinglj’ at the numerous residents who had: been drawn to their front gates by the screams of the children, it disappeared. Mrs. Daniels decided to warn otliei children in the neighbourhood not to play in the street, and left her home. No sonner bad .she started on this mission than the dog savagely attacked her again. She raced back with the dog snapping at her heels, and scrambled over the fence of the Salvation Army Hall, badly injuring her legs in the effort.

ANIMAL ATTACKS POLICEMEN

Two policemen—a sergeant and a constable—arrived in time to see the animal chasing a screaming child down the street. As soon as the Alsatian saw the police it abandoned the pursuit and turned upon, them: It flew at the throat of the constable, who side-stopped, and the dog then attacked the sergeant. The latter, who had had considerable experience in dealing with wild animals, grasped the infuriated dog by the throat. Hie dog clawed and scratched the policeman in its desperate efforts to escape and ultimately managed to free itself, but the sergeant Hung himself upon the dog and pinned it to the ground. The constable secured some ropes and the animal was securely bound, but both policemen had been torn and bitten before the Alsatian was captured. It was finally destroyed.