Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-01-17
DUSKY DOG MAN
ANNOYS WOMAN.
Pursues Her Along Public Street
Until She Almost Had
Mysteries.
TOURISTS COME TO HER AID.
Tax on Pet Canine Had Been Paid But
Its Owner, Miss Cairns, Was
Hounded All the Same.

To be frightened almost into hys'
terics by a burley negro. who followed
her for nearly half block, and who
deslsted only when she became 30 nsr-
vous that she threatened to scream for
the police, was the experience OF MISS
Edith NJ. Cairns OF IS Canyon road this
morning,
Miss Cairns was accosted by the ne
gro in front OF the Alta club, and he
demanded possession II the pet dog
which was accompanying her on her
walk down town. She refused To give
II up. told him that its tax was paid.
and then started TO walk along.
Il shall follow yoh,r declared the ne
gro. "till ] get that dog" and as the
lady proceeded on down State street
from the Alta club the negro made good
his threat by keeping at her heels. Sh.
ordered him to cease several times, ana
declared II was an outrage to be treated
tliis way on the streets and warned
him that she should take the matter
to the mayor immediately II he persist
ed any further.
TOURISTS TO HER RESCUE,
The darkey. however, held close on
behind whenever she tried to proceed,
and finally when she was below the
Packard library, she partially broke
down through nervous fright and spoke
so loud that two tourists who were
coming up the street We're attracted
to the scene. IN time to hear her de-
clare that II the negro followed her
another step she should scream for the
police,
one Of the tourists an elderly gentle
man, offered to escort her TO her home,
and see that she was not further mo-
Tested. II landed In this town last
night" he said, "but never anywhere
witnessed 50 huniliating an experience
for a white woman, and If II Is a sam
pie OF the way 1t Is governed. | have
very little respect for II, and shall con-
tnue on by the first train"
When the dog wagon began lts pur-
suit of Miss Cairns, II was In front Of
the Keith apartments, near the Uni
versity club. while the lady was cross
ing the street from the Emery Holmes
flats to the Alta club. Ii overlook her
at the Alta club corner, and here II
was that the negro first attempted TO
take the dog away from her that she
was leading.
In the wagon was a well cared for
thoroughbred spaniel which was evil
IDENTIFY house dog belonging in the
neighborhood and which was not OF the
class of street dogs, (which It Is the pur-
pose of the city law TO gather up and
do away with for the public benefit.
MISS CAIRNS STORY.
Miss Cairns. when approached by a
News" reporter shortly after the in
cident. was still suffering from the ner-
vous shock occasioned by having q
black man threaten to follow her to her
home, and TO actually do it for nearly
half a block.
1T was an outrage" she declared,
land he had no right to try to follow
me. ] told him the tax on my dog was
paid, and that ought to have sufiiced,
instead of his trying to follow me that
way and TO learn where lived. told
him II was none of his business when
he first asked where lived. The dog Is
a family pet, and we have always paid
his tax regularly. The dog man had
no right to insist on taking him or
threatening to follow me home after I
told him the tax was paid, / shall lay
the matter before Mayor Thompson
formally as soon as | have an oppor.
tunity"
The negro dog catcher In question Is
new appointee of the American"
administration who commenced his
work with the wagon only few days
ago