Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-08-18
A HEROIC
Held n Mac Dog and Drove Spirited
Horse Three Miles.

Horse Three Miles.
Mrs. Chas. +. Lenone, wife of n
wealthy business man of Passaic, n.
j., displayed an amount of cool nerve
and courage yesterday that entities
her to a high rank among modern
heronies.
With one hand she held a mad dog
in the bottom of her carriage and
with the other hand she drove q spir-
tied horse three miles to her home,
where the afflicted animal was killed.
She could have easily rid herself Of all
danger by tossing the dog out of the
vehicle, but she knew the beast would
bite someone IL permitted to run at
large. So she held on to him, al
though she had to fight every inch of
the way during the long drive to save
herself.
1t had long been Mrs. Lenone's GUS
tom when she went nj driving in her
handsome trap to take her dog along
with her. He was we'll trained and
lay c~ontentedly at her feet on the
floor of the carriage.
On this occasion when Mrs. Lenone
started out for a drive along the riv-
er road the dog as usual went with
her. When some three miles out she
noticed that the animal was acting
queerly. He became excited and froth
appeared on his mouth.
1t was not until he began to snap
at her gown that Mrs. Lenone be-
came alarmed. She has had much ex-
perience with animals and knew that
the dog displayed all the symptoms of
rabies.
Her first impulse was to leap from
the trap, strike the horse with the
whip and thus rid herself of the dan
gerous beast. Nut Mrs. Lenone is not
the kind Of oma to save herself at
the expense Of others.
She reached down and with her left
hand caught the dog by the collar
and with n deXterous twist turned
him On his back and then pressed her
hand firmly under his frSthing jaw
against his throat. She knew that ms
long as she could keep him on his
back md her hand at his throat he
would be powerless.
Twisting the reins about the whip
with her free hand, she folCed her
gown about her feet and limbs, so
that If the dog managed to get free
and bite at her the folds of the dress
would partially, if not wholly, protect
her.
This done she caught at the reins
with her right hand, cluked to the
horse and started off at a smart clip
for Kehoe's stables in Passaic, three
miles distant.
All during the drive the dog strug-
gled f%iercely and snapped and clawed
at the plucky woman A thick driv-
ing glove protected her left hand and
wrist from his claws. Many times she
was tempted to toss the dog out OF
the trap. Her hand and wrist became
almost numb from the strain of hold
ing the crazy best down. She had to
drive STOPPING partially over, to keep a
firm grip on the dog, and at times the
pain in her back almost made her for.
get her danger.
The horse made the three miles in
twelve minutes, but it seemed twelve
hours to Mrs. Lenone. On reaching
Kehoe's stables she called to several
grooms. They wanted to kill the dog
at once, but Mrs. Lenone insisted up,
on a vetinary first seeing the animal
DIR. Henderson was summoned, and
he said the dog was suffering from
rabies and should be killed at once
Several grooms managed to get the
dog into an empty box-stall and there
he was shot to death.
Not until the dog was killed die
Mrs. Lenone's courage fail her. She
had to be helped to her home, where
she almost collapsed from the terrific
strain she had passed through.