DIED TO SAVE HIS DOG.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13781, 20 June 1908, Page 2 (Supplement)

DIED TO SAVE HIS DOG.

PROFESSOR LOSES HIS LIFE IN RESCUING FAVOURITE. ' A trominknt professor of the University of Czernowitz, Dr. Loewe, has met with a shocking death in trying to save his favourite dog. The professor had climbed the Gaisberg Mountain in search of geological specimens, and had the dog with him on a lead. It would appear that the animal slipped over the edge of a rock, and that its master, in trying to pull it back to safety, lost his balance,, striking a ledce a short way down, and then rebounding, and falling a sheer distance of 600 ft down a precipice. In falling Dr. Loewe released his hold of the dog's lead, and the dog fell, uninjured, on to the ledge mentioned, where it remained howling until it attracted the attention of some peasants. These endeavoured to secure it. but the dog, -.. their approach, jumped from the ledge, and half falling, half scrambling, eventually reached the valley up which it had originally come with its master, and raced home. The appearance of the animal roused the fears of the professor's household, and a search disclosed his terribly mangled body lying among some huge boulders at the foot of the precitriee.