Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-25
FIGHTS BRUTAL
DOG CATCHER
TO SAVE PET
POUND KEEPER TRIES TO TAKE
LICENSED CANINE
STRUGGLES WITH WOMAN; bob"
ESCAPES
Although Shown Tag for Current Year,
Fellow Tries to Drag Valuable
Dog Away-His Arrest
May Follow

met his match, and his conaueror
- is a woman.
In a fierce struggle with q brutal
fellow bent on dragging her licensed
collie off to the pound, Mrs. L. s.
Hodgson of 514 South Figueroa street
fought single-handed with a man, and
with the help of a little girl released
the dog from the net and saved her
pet. In her efforts to rescue the dog,
which the catcher netted after being
shown the tag for the present year,
Mrs. Hodgson's glasses were torn from
her waist and trampled In the ground
and she was bruised 1t is probable
the fellow who attacked her will be
arrested.
Mrs. Hodgson took Bob" one of the
most beautiful Scotch collies in Los
Angeles, out for his evening exercise
Thursday She carried his collar, on
which were two license tags, one for
1908 and the other for 1909 in her
hand. On Fremont street near Fifth
the wagon of the city's dog catcher
drove up. Both of the men in the
wagon knew the dog well, for they had
captured him before and were sure of
their fee If they could get him to the
pound.
Even before one of the men threw
the net over the dog Mrs. Hodgson
Immediately showed him the dogs COL
lar with the tags on it,
Shows Him License
"You cannot take that dog" she said,
''he Is licensed"
st will take him anyway" was the
reply and he InreW the net, an act in
1 to rftit1 hicyh
| dog.
When he threw the net over the dog
! Bob lay still and did not get en-
| tangled in its meshes. In her frantic
endeavor to save her pet Mrs. Hodgson
shook the collar in the mans face and
| cried, LOOK at the license tag"
He paid no attention to her, so fin
ally, in desperation, she appealed to
two men sitting on the porch of the
| house In front of which the encounter
| took place. Evidently convinced that
the utterly lawless and brutal ways of
the dog catcher are one of the hu-
miliations to which all good residents
of the city must submit, neither raised
hand or offered the slightest as
sistance.
The dog catcher threw the woman
rudely aside and did his best to drag
Bob to the wagon. Mrs. Hodgson re-
sented the insult by striking him in
IU6 IdC6 with luG QO6 COAl0A ~ WilASh
were attached the brass tags which
should have been Bob's badge of i'm
munity from the city pound. In the
scuffle which followed Mrs. Hodgson's
eyeglasses were torn from her waist
and trampled in the ground.
The spectacle of "a refined, delicate
woman, who has taken every precau-
ton to protect her dog against the city
ordinance which permits such things,
fighting as best she could against the
big brute of dog catcher for the pos
session of that dog was sight that
probably could be witnessed no place
but in Los Angeles.
Little Girl Helps Her
Mrs Hodgson was finally reinforced
by a. little girl of 10 years and an elder
ly woman Mrs. Hodgson took the dog
catcher by the throat while the little
girl lifted the net and Bob wisely
backed out. Even then the dog catcher
followed the collie to his refuge on the
porch of the nearest house. Mrs. Hodg-
son put her arms about the dogs neck,
and the city official, with a sneer and
threat that he would get him next
time, left.
Mrs. Hodgson visited the office of
Prosecuting Attorney Woolwine TO-
make out complaint AS it was late
in the afternoon Mr.. Woolwine had
gone to his home, but she will swear to
a complaint of assault today.
Mrs. Hodgson said
"I have had Bob less than a year and
in that time he has cost me 81 in fees
On June l when the new license went
into effect they caught him before l
had chance to get downtown to get
one. When / went to the pound to re-
deem him / counted twenty-five stray
mongrels running about on the OUTSIDE
whom the dog catchers paid to atten-
| ~. l.. fo
"When l take Bob out for walk
carry his collar in my hand, for every
one knows that constant wearing OF
the collar will spoil the ruff on collie.
I showed the dog catcher the license
tags, but that did not seem to make
any difference. He went ahead and
tried to drag Bob to the wagon just
the same. He bruised my arm as he
threw me aside, and then / got angry
and struck him with the collar. MY
eyeglasses were trampled in the dirt
and my waist torn. l thing l have a
good case against the city, but first
shall see that that dog catcher gets his
just deserts
Bob came down to The Herald Office
and had his photograph taken. Males
tic and superior, conscious OF his line
age, he took any pose that the photog-
rapher asked of him. Bob's opinion or
the Los Angeles dog catcher would be
we'll worth printing If he could only
talk In the suit against the city ana
in the case against the dog catcher Bob
should prove g. sterling witness. His
pedigree is one that should make the
genealogical societies envious for Its
blue blood. Bob is an aristrocrat from
the tip of his long nose to the white
mark on his tail.
To Change System
1t is quite probable that the present
obnoxious system employed by the city
of Los Angeles and carried even be-
yond the limit permitted by the Or
dinance will soon be changed for one
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