Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1905-05-18
JOHN FISHER IS ATTACKED.
A Crowd of Hoodlumes Try to
Prevent Dogs From Being
Carried Off.

Menaced by large crowd of coloFed
persons, pursued by rabble of young
ANA old who were anxious to do him
bodily harm, John Fisher, official dog
catcher andfexterminator, was besieged
in the dog pound last night. He was
threatened with the same death he
has been dealing out co the dogs he
captured. and it was only by show
of force that he was enabled TO escape
uninjured.
For a time il was feared by Fisher
that he would have to make use of his
revolver. but this he refrained from
doing as he did not care TO injure
anyone. He stated today, however,
that had he been pressed much closer
he would have been forced TO shoot
and someone would certainly have
gone down. Fisher had been taking up
quite large number of dogs without
license tags and in many instances the
dogs were owned by colored persons.
These became very indignant in
spite of the fact that all tags were sup.
posed TO have been secured by the first
of the month. They threatened that
if Fisher did not refrain from taking
in any more of their dogs they would
give him something to remember.
Fisher paid no further attention TO
the remark and yesterday continued
gathering in ours aud mongrels of
every description. Late in the even
ing he was headed for the dog pound.
which is situated at the foot of North
west street. He had seven dogs of
nearly every possible description ex :
cept those of any worth in town and
was having more or less trouble MAX
ing his way down the street.
When some little distance from the
pound he was surrounded by large
crowd of colored persons They
threatened to take him to the pound,
fasten a rope about his neck and throw
him into the water if he did not re.
lease the dogs. This he refused to do
and the crowd. rapidly growing in
size, pressed closely about him. A
small boy with Fisher became very
much frightened. He was too fright
ened TO run for fear the people would
catch him and all he was able to do
was to cling close to Fisher. Down
the street the rabble followed Fisher
and iseveral times ii appeared that
they would press in on him and take
the dogs by force. Fisher held them
off, however, and took their taunts
MlbuOub any Nn6n
the pound was reached he hastened
inside with the dogs and hastily shut
the gate, just as several small boys
began throwing stones.
After securely fastening the dogs so
that-they could not be stolen Fisher
went out on the street. Several mem
bers of the crowd we're still standing
about and when Fisher drew his revol-
YER they rapidly left the neighborhood.
Fisher was condemned by several per-
sons this morning for his actions un-
der the circumstances. He was told
that he should have drawn his revol-
yer at the first sign of violence and
used it ifany opprobrious remarks were
made at his expense. Fisher stated
today that he would never let such an
attack happen again, as he would let it
be understood he did not intend to be
molested; that he was employed to
take up all dogs which were found
without tags and that he was going TO
do so no matter what the opposition.
Night before last Fisher also had
somet trouble on Calvert street, but
managed to get out of it without any
thing serious happening. Today he
will execute two dogs and tomorrow
seven more will leash i'm if they are
not redeemed by owners.