The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-10-14 00:00:00

A FEROCIOUS DOG.

At th• borough police court on Tuseday, before T.
Abbott, Eng, and & Robison, Eel.
Mr. w. C. Davis, landlord of the Golden Lou, was
summoned for unlawfully suffering a certain ferocious
dog to be at large in the public streets and not kept (tads,
pr coutrnl
proper
Hopi»r appeared t,r the complainant, • little
boy wood Archibald William RuhMich, whom the dog
he.t. bitten. and Kr. Horird was for Ike Wenn&

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Mr. Polly Hooper said on Tuesday Last as the boy waa
missing down 84 Edmond-oboes this dog belonging to Mr.
Davis flaw out from the Golden Lion and seriously bit
him in the log. A summons bed been issued. and be
amnion asked the Bench, this being a dangerous dog, to
order that it be destroyed. He could substantiate his
case by a previo .us 'aocident." if lie might call it so, a •
similar sort, which occurred a month ago, on which Mr.
Davis than and then, was warned of the nature of the
dog. He then promised to do what be maid to keep it
under proper control, if not to lull it. His clienta were
not vindictive. hut they wanted protection, and did not
want an animal of thb sort about the streets.

WIZ .;;; "iiLdAy that h•
sras passing doirn St. Mary-street when to. dog flaw out
from ths Holden Lion and bit 61m in to. Is. He tried
to tear him off, but was unable to do so, and to. dog again
bit him in the log and made Ma lag bland a little Hs had
never on thy occasion worried to. dog.
Orosep•thmlned by Mr. Howard: It wad about edema
o'clock, and be was in tb• road just (*malts the antrum,
gable of Kr. Dark's stables. Then were no other both
with him. The dog ran out from the yard and dew at
him. A man thlld out to it, and it went on bath into
thsturi.L m When b• got hoe his mother took him Dr.
Ha and h• had bean at home ever sines (The oom-
plainan on nauoving the bandages from his log, athl-
bi:e I the marks of usurious bit.)
Mr. William Callow, =eager of th• South-Western
ofllee, said on Tuesday het he saw the dog bite to. boy.
Ils dog ammo out or to. Gtldea Lion; it had been gnaw.
log a boos previously, went out into the middle of the
road, and 80. at the hoy, .ho wag psa.ing, but not
worrying to. dog in the slightest manner. The boy, when
bitten, screamed and ran home Witness drove the dog
sway, and it ran into the botch

Yr. Henry Robert Hayman sad ch. dog belonged to
Mr._ Darla.

—Mr. Howard: How do you know I
Witness: Mr. Davis haa acknowledged the fact Me
Pune to me in the pressno. of Kr. John Hanntrit. and said
"If You wish I 1 destroy the dig."
Mr. Howard far the defence Mid it was the duty of the
prosecution to show there was a certain ferocious dog that
It was at large in the public streets ; that it belonged to
Mr. Davis' and that it waa not kept under proper controL
Ha contended the prosecution had not made oat their case.
So far is the boy was acocerned be said he wee nesting in
St lidasand'eetreet aid that,. dog cause out and bit him.
and apes whisk the dig ran be& into the yard agate.
There wag no doubt he had been bitten, but it had not
been proved that It was by Mir. Davts's dog. He pointed
out the discirepancies in the evidence of Kr. Callow and
the boy hintseU. There wag no case under the Act of
Parliament of a dangerose dog betas at large and not kept
under proper oontroL
Mr. Davis said he at once sent the dog away as a
present to Kr. Hilet SYriourit and it would never come
Ur. Howard said Yr. Davis could not do mere than he
had done. The dog was a valueble one mad be had at
one. given it sway. There was so share or delusion about
11. It wald not come book soda when this stair was
blown ever.
Kr. P 417 Rungs" erpremesd Wendt satisfied, and the
cams was dissaimeid.
The guestke is to expenses was endoably settled.