The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-03-24

A Cincinnati BiOOtied English Bull
Dog Lunches OFF His Masters Five.
Year-OId Child.
From the Cincinnati Commercially March
Goth.
On Walnut hills 1t has become the
fashion to have savage dogs around 10
protect the people inside the house from
burglars. 1t may be said that the
smaller the amount OF valua-
bles to steal the larger has been the out
post of dogs Not q long time ago. boy
in the valley west of the police station
was set upon by a hungry bulldog and
his shoulder eaten OF before the beast
upon him could be hauled away and Sc
cured by chain. Later, on Kibby
street, a young woman was attacked by
savage pull, Of English breed, and the
calf of her leg was nearly eaten off be-
fore policemen interfered and stopped
the performance by taking the life Of
the dog.
A sickening spectacle that ought to dis
courage henceforth the harboring about
his premises of savage dog by a man who
has a child, was presented on Walnut
hill yesterday. About noon q little
daughter OF David Bole, living onlGil-
bert avenue, north of Sycamore street,
was in the back yard, and approached
near the kennel of large white Eng
llsh bulldog chained. The child and
dog were about of the same age, a little
over 5 years, and grown up together,
and had number OF lively romps about
the .place. Suddenly yesterday noon,
when the child passed near the kennel
of the dog, he leaped out At her, bore her
to the ground, and began to tear her
with his teeth. The screams of the child
and of her mother attracted the attention
of John Thompson, next door, d police
man, who was seated at dinner. Thomp-
son ran out, suspecting that one of his
own children was hurt, but soon found
that the trouble was in the next yard.
He looked over the tence and saw the
dog wsllowlng the child on the ground,
and struggling with the poor little bum
die as if he was fighting another dog OF
his size and pluck-grasping with his
teeth, shaking, letting go, and Srasping
again to get better hold. Thompson
Jumped over the fence and ran to her
relief. He tried at first to cut the dogs
throat, bet didn't succeed, not getting his
knife in readiness on the lively brute
In attempting to shoot he was in fear OF
hitting the child Going around in
front, Thompson, with his revolver in
his right hand, leveled low, shot the dog
fair in the head, and with his lett drew
the mangled child away. AT this the
dog, only temporarily stunned, sprang
at tho policeman's throat, and knocked
him over against grape arbor, the dog
having reached the length Of his chain,
and not being able to pursue him any
further.
Mrs. BOte the mother of the child,
catching her up, WAS attached by the
dog, and severely wounded in the hand
by its teeth. Policeman Thompson
again shot the dog through the body,
when its retreated to its kennel, where
it WAS killed. The little girl was hurri-
bly, wounded about the throat and meek
and IN the face. She also suffered very
severe scalp wound at the back OF the
bead. DR.. kcyt who attended her, ex-
pressed the opinion last evening that her
injuries, though very severe, were not
necessarily fatal. Information was re-
cclved late that the child WAS dying.