DANGEROUS ALSATIAN

Taranaki Daily News, 8 February 1934, Page 11

DANGEROUS ALSATIAN

ORDER FOR DESTRUCTION. LITTLE GIRL ATTACKED. Whangarei, Feb. 5. Charges of being ths owner of an Alsatian dog which attacked a child and of allowing a dangerous dog to be unmuzzled were preferred against Emily Poole in the Whangarei Police Court to-day. Senior-Sergeant Powell said that one evening the dog attacked a terrier. and at a later date severely bit a Pekinese dog, which died the next day. On another occasion a small girl was tacked and bitten when she visited defendant’s house. “The dog is a menace in the neighbourhood and should be destroyed,” said the senior sergeant. He added that defendant had offered to send the dog to Rotorua, but he considered this would not be satisfactory, as the dog would be a danger in any locality. . The magistrate, • Mr. G. N. Morris, said he agreed that the dog should be destroyed, but he would not like to make an order for destruction without first hearing defendant. He would adjourn the case until next Court day to enable the defendant to be present. He did not know why she was not present to-day, and if she did not appear at the next Court sitting an order would be made in her absence. At this stage the defendant’s husband, Leslie Poole, arrived in Court. He intimated he would plead guilty, but objected to the dog being destroyed. He said the dog did not attack anyone in the road. It was usually kept tied up and was a valuable pedigree dog, which had taken a number of prizes at shows. »■ '

The magistrate said that, even muzzled, the dog was a danger to children. The dog would have to be destroyed. An order would be made accordingly.