TALE OF A DOG

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 10964, 28 July 1921, Page 3

TALE OF A DOG

THEFT CHARGE DISMISSED. "WHEN IS A PUP A PUPP” Three ©mall pups did a lot of whining in the courthouse yesterday on being obliged to make an appearance when a man named Frederick Kemp was before Mr J. S. Evans. changed with stealing a white fox terrier, valued tat £3, and. three pups, valued at £6, the property of Henry P. Guppy. For the police, Sub-Inspector Willis stated that Guppy, was a dog-breeder at Adelaide road. In May last the terrier had disappeared, and was found subsequently at the house of accused. It was only after the man had been threatened with, arrest that he disposed of the animal. It was stated that the dog had followed a man to the same house as accused. . . For the defence it was contended that there was no evidence to ©how that the dug had come into the possession of tho defendant by any but innocent means. Tho pups had not been born at the time of the alleged theft, consequently the defendant could not be charged with their theft. "The question is,” said Mr Jackson, "when is a pup a pup?” (Laughter.) The magistrate said it seemed entirely a- case for a civil action, and dismissed tb* information.