FATAL DOG – BITE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23115, 13 August 1938, Page 2 (Supplement)

FATAL DOG - BITE

VICTIM CONCEALS ffIJUBS SEPTIC INFECTION TO ARM WAS PATTING ANIMAL'S HEAD Bitten by an Alsatian dog while dw ' was patting its head, a "woman begged the owner, "Don't do anything to bin, will you?" She also concealed her injury from her family at first, not wishing to alarm them. A fortnight later she died fron broncho-pneumonia, following ft #6ptio infection to her right arm due to the bite. , The tragedy was revealed at a pool inquest, where a verdict of "Death by misadventure" was recorded on Jennie Jones, aged 47, widow of a ship I engineer, of Lithe-viand Park, 14 pool. _ The owner of the dog, John F» w Bride, of Litherland Park, declared that Mrs. Jones put her hand out; to pat the animal. h "It did not growl," he declared, "but suddenly seemed to get her upper arm, and then came back to me. I do not know what caused him to bite, her, unless it could smell her dog on her clothes. I am not suggesting she acted unkindly toward the dog. 1 did not realise what had happened." Mr. Mcßride added that he took Mrs. Jones at once to a doctor, who canter* ised the wound. The dog had nevrt bitten anyone beforo. When he heard that Mrs. Jones had been taken to hoe* pital he had the dog destroyed. Coroner: I think that was a very wise thing to do. as apparently he wa a nervous animal.