CHASE AFTER DOG

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21615, 6 October 1933, Page 8

CHASE AFTER DOG

RANGER AND CONSTABLES ARMED WITH GUNS IN CAR STRANGE STRATFORD SCENES [BY TELEGRAPH —OWN CORRESPONDENT] NEW PLYMOUTH, Thursday There were strange scenes in Stratford streets yesterday when officials armed with puns set out in a mdtorcar to capture and destroy a dog that had become a nuisance in the town owing to viciousness. During last week, the dog, which was without an owner, had bitten five people, including two women. It was not long before the police and borough authorities received complaints, but as the dog was particularly cunning, he easily evaded the usual modes of capture. An obliging citizen placed himself and his car at the disposal of the borough ranger, Mr. H. Dixon, and two constables yesterday and the hunt was on. The quarry was sighted in Pembroke Road, but he had no intention of offering himself as a "sitting shot," and the arrival of the car with rifles protruding ready for instant action was .the signal for his disappearance over fences. When the car swung into Hamlet Street later, the dog was. again sighted, He was startled into fresh activity and cleared another fence, only to return to the street. The car was gaining rapidly on' him as he ran down Seyton Street. It was there that he made a tactical blunder. Back yards were obviously his safeguard, but he kept going and soon he offered a splendid target and the ranger brought him down with an expert snap shot.