SAVAGE ALSATIAN DOG

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21639, 3 November 1933, Page 14

SAVAGE ALSATIAN DOG

MAN ATTACKED AT GATE POLICEMAN TO RESCUE ' THREE REVOLVER SHOTS After a large Alsatian dog attacked a In an at Campsie, Sydney, recently, a constable who was sent to destroy the animal, was also threatened, and ho wounded tho dog,' which leaped over three (iff. paling fences and was found dead almost a mile away. Belorc it attacked tho man, it ran at a racehorse .and snapped at its throat. Mr. Charles Constable Mas walking up the side passage outside his house, 'Carrying a garbage tin to the street. .'•As he opened tho front gate, lie was attacked by the dog, which had been lying on the tootpath concealed by a hedge. ; "The brute sprang straight at mv throat," Mr. Constable said. "Fortunfitcly, I was ablo to stave him off with the tin 1 was carrying, but I was nearly knocked down by the dog.'' For two .or three minutes he hold the dog at bay. He managed to thrust it away .and ran through tho front gate. Closing this to keep the dog inside, be ran into tho next doer house and called to his wife to close the doors and not to '.venture outside. He hastened to telephone the police. AVhon Mr. Constable returned to bis Tiouse lie found that the dog was still inside the front fence, and had frightened a number of children who wore passing on their'way to school. Constable Bell arrived shortly afterward, and as he placed his hand on tho gate the dog sprang up and growled savagely at him. The policeman drew bis revolver and fired u shot which entered the dog's body. The dog turned and ran down tho pido passage. Ho jumped over a 6ft. paling fence, bleeding profusely, and the constable fired again. This shot passed through the dog's head. The constable followed tho dog, which jumped two more fences, and fired Another shot, which entered tho eye. The body of the dog was found later almost a mile from Mr. Constable's lonie. It was learned later that while Mr. George Xoonan, a -liorso trainer, was leading Gay Hawk, a three-year-old racehorse, to a racecourse early in the morning an Alsatian dog, which is thought to be tho one that attacked Mr. Constable, ran at the horse's head and frightened it considerably. When the constable was returning to the police station after destroying the Alsatian he saw a man carrying a pea-rifle. This man stated be bad been attacked by another Alsatian. The constable traced 'this dog to a house nt Canterbury. Its owner stated that the dog was not savage, and the constable examined it, and found that it was perfectly docile. It had a wound in the head, which was bleeding profusely.