New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-10-19
ATTACKED BY SAHAGE DOGS.

A BOYS EXP ERIENCE AT FORDHAM.
KNOCKED DOWN AND SEVERELY BIrrRN BY THREE
DOGS IN THE GROUNDS OF ST. JOHNS COLLEGE
WOUNDS THAT NAY BE FATAL.
Five large dogs guard the grounds that sur
round st. Johns College of Fordham and are the
OF an l E1o SSHa IN tbe VII
LACE and throughout the neighborhood.
The people take good care not to trust themselves
within the premises after 10 o'clock at night when
some of the dogs run at large. Once twice per-
sons unaware of the dogs nature have yeniureu on
the premises when the brutes were unclaimed, and
Tuesday night about IL O'clock, John Ennis
lad of seventeen, his way from WilliamsbrIdge
to this city foot TO flowed the pathway over
a stile that leads from the railroad track into the
grounds of the college. He said aTterward that lie
thought that no taking the shortest cut to the
DEPOT He mad not proceeded far when he heard q
deem growl behind him. and as he turned his head
to see where IL came from two great dogs sprang
upon him. The boy was knocked down. but rose to
shouting for. help: The dogs came tho
boy was again knocked down, while tho feroclous
leg. HIS screams brought the college Waterman,
Philip Higblan, who ran down the mn, Leading a
dog equal IN size and terocity TO the other TWO,
ioose from the mans grasp and Joined with the
others other in their attack the boy. Highlan struck
club that he carried, switch laid
him bowling on the ground. But he got up and re-
newed the attack only to be beaten back by the
club Hghan told the boy to get his back to the
tree. When he had accomplished this the watch
man laid about him with his club with such good OIL
feet that the other two dogs were soon beaten oil.
Highlan then pointed ont TO the victim, whose
clothes were nearly torn OIL him and who was
covered with blood, the way TO the gate, ana ac-
companIed him there Two OF the dogs followed
him. swapping at ms heels. The third had not yet
recovered from the stunning blows OF the club
Ennis went to the railroad depot, where he gave
an account OF what had befalen nm TO the agent
~ rs la npln i'm Upff a
New York. He got In horse ana came to Nor
rlsania. After seeing his wounds the conductor ana
not demand his fare. From MDrrlsana he walked
to Harlem thence he took street-car, and came
TO the City Hall After wandering about the Post
Office for an hour or two he got
INTO ThiEd,aye car w for Hdgle@ intend MSeGc
he lived Day was breaking when the lad, who
was tired and almost falnllng from his wounds
in milk-wagon from Harlem to fremont. From
fremont to,Fordham he walked along the railroad
track. AS lie passed the Fordham Depot twopo-
leeman called after him and wanted TO know il he
was the lad that had been bitten by the college
dogs. On his replying in the affirmative they
asked to see the wounds. HIS right leg be-
tween the knee and hip was shockingly mangled.
One wound was two inches long and two inches
deep. Both hands were bitten through The left
arm contained two deep and ugly wounds lhe
police took the lad TO the Thlrty-third Precinct
Police Station ana summoned an ambulance. lie
was conveyed to the Ninety Street Hospital,
where the physicians i'll charge stated that his
billy of hydrophobIa.
AT St. Johns College TRIBUNE reporter was in
formed by Father Cahill that the dogs We're kept to
brighten away thieves and tramps., Our church
ana our carpentershsp" he said, have been
broken into and robbed recently, and since then we
have kept dog chained all the time at the church
and one at the carpenter-shop A dog is led around
by the Waterman also, and two, which are
perfectly, harmless. run loose. They are all
large dogs, crosses between the New
and mastlf breeds. l am surprised
to learn that they have bitten anybody. The
Waterman told me this morning that they had torn
"a mans clothes. He beat them oil with his club
and the man was very grateful to him. think the
blow he gave OF the dogs will likely prove fatal
We are compelled to have these dogs to guard the
1870 acres OF ground that surround the college,
which includes an orchard, itself great tempta-
ton TO thieves. The dogs are kept chained unul
/ o'clock AT night. Then the two harmless ones
are left at large until o'clock in the morning, when
they are chained up again."
In conversation with member OF the college
faculty the reporter was informed that those about
the college considered it unsafe to venture away
from the building after the dogs were turned loose
at night.
"It Is worth mans life to be inside that fence
after 10 o'clock and them dogs not know yOu,"
SAID a Fordham policeman