The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-18
TERRIER "BOBS" TO The BAR.
THEY'RE GOING TO TRY 4 BROOK.
IIN DOG FOR HIS LIFE.
No Question That He Bit Elsie Rash. hut
Did lie do IL Against the Peace and
Dignity OF the state and the statute
IN such Case Made and PrONide ::

Bobs il on trial for his life A capital
offence, according 10 dog law, has been
charged against him. Issue will be joined
tomorrow morning and Magistrate Manner
will true verdict give according 10 the
evidence
Besides Bobs the persons Immediately
concerned are Lorenzo Duncan and his
family. who live AT ss5 Union street, Brook
lyn, and Mrs. Carrie Rash and her daughter.
whose home Is next door.
Until two weeks ago the two families
were on the best Of terms. Mrs. Rash's
friends used To call up on the Duncan ,ee-
phon" when they wanted TO speak 10 her,
but they don't any more, nor do the two
families speak Between them IL a klon-
dixie coldnas-.
Bobs il a bull terrier fourteen months
old. small for his age and worth $500. ac-
corcing to his owner. Miss Adelaide Dun
can. Mr.. Rash says the dog is big and
savage and worthless except for purposes
of slaughter With the latter object in view
she offered s?j for him last week, but didn't
get him. She wants to have him killed
because he bit her twelve year-old daughter
Elsie
the dog on the street when Mrs. Rash and
her daughter came along They stopped
for a moment TO chat and Elsie was bitten
Mrs. Rash says that the dogs teeth went
through the palm of her daughters hand
and also lacerated her wrist, She asserts
that the wound wa, so dangerous that
physician has attended to il every day since
and that he child suffered 80 much from
shock that they thought at one time she
might die.
She says that she considered the dog so
dan gerous to the community that she
rogue cd the DunCanS TO kill him and
Isl hen they refused she brought the matter
before City Magistrate. Both parties.
their lawyers and the dog are 10 appear
before Magistrate Manner in the Myrtle
avenue police court tomorrow morning.
and he " i'll settle "Bobs's" fate.
The dog il savage and Bit my daughter
without any provOCation, Mrs. Rash raid
Yesterday "iie ~as jumping up on Miss
Duncan and Elsie was standing near when
u" suddenly snapped and Dit her hand. She
hadn't touched him.
Nv child lint the only one he has bitten
| know of two other children who have
felt his teeth, one of whom was the little
daughter Of Or. Holden, who originally
owned him. The doctor had to give hlu
the doctors daughter in the lip so badly
that -tit chc- had Ia bc taken in il.
Il feel bad about IN" matter. The Dun
cans and ] used 20 he good friends, but
| don't IKE the way they acted al all. After
their dog bit my daughter they never ono"
sent in 20 ask no" she was, and ! don
link that vas nice Then hen | asked
them to kill the dog they refused, and acted
a. though their dog had done me favor IN
condpsccrding to bite my daughter.
Miss Duncan. who owns the pup. said that
her la' Yer had told her not 10 say anything
about the case, but when she heard what
Mrs Rash had said she took the trouble ?"
'oN her side { Z.
"Flsic Rash persisted in petting Bol-'
aftrrI told her not 10 and he snapped at her,
but | don't think the bite did "a great deal
of damage" she said. Elsie was out
again the next day and has beer out every
dnv since She didn't seem badly hurt.
and a. we saw her running around the street
we didn't think il necessary 10 inquire
about her condition. Lately she has been
wearing her arm in a sling one day and
ON the nest sh" doesn't
Il wish 'Pols' were here So that you could
see bow mock he j. but be has been sent 70
"A veterinary to be- kept until the matter is
settled in court. pr Holden gave Bobs'
TO me, aud | pies- he will be- interested 70
hear that he bit his daughter. lie hasn't
u daughter ~ all.
Il guess Mrs Rash must toe getting very
much excited about il. She has told friends
of mirc that if Bubs' ever got hydrophobia
her daughter would get it. I don't see
how Aud she says she wants 10 have him
killed and his brain examined. ! don't
So. what good that will do her daughter.
Mss Duncan doesn't think that "Bobs's" "
trial will result in a death sentence, and if
her surini~e is correct. he will be back at
home tomorrow afternoon.