Smyrna times., 1932-08-03
UNUSUAL TRIAL
OF PET CHOW DOG
Baltimore Owner Has His Dog
Before Court For Biting
Two Persons
ExILED TO DELAWARE

Banished to Delaware for the
rest of her life. That sentence
handed down by Judge Albert S. j.
Owens in Criminal Court at Balti-
more Friday ended the famous dog
death trial. Ming Toys life is
saved but she will have to spend
her remaining days on this earth
on the farm of A. c. Lambkin,
near Selbyville, Del. Ming Toy is
the chow dog which gained nation
wide publicity when she was sent
enced to death for biting two per-
Sons. The dog trial came into
Judge Owens court through an ap-
peal from a magistrates decision
Thousands were interested in the
trial and before the decision was
handed down Judge Owens had re-
ceived SO letters and six kilograms
asking him to be clement The
$50 persons who crowded the
courtroom gave vent to a loud
murmur of approval when the deci-
sion was presented. The same
crowd was more or less disap-
pointed when Ming Toy failed to
appear to plead her case. Pro-
cedings were just beginning to
reach full swing when the dogs
owners, Mrs. Catherine Boulden
and Joseph Skrentny informed the
court that they had received an Of
fer from Lambkin, a friend, to take
the dog on his farm. 81 think that
is the best solution" said Judge
Owens, I'VE have great city here
with nearly 100000 population
and it is no place to keep a dog.
II really is wrong to keep a dog
in the city. II hesitate to take the
life of dog yet the evidence in
this case clearly shows that this
dog, Ming Toy, was of an uncer-
tain temperament and not a dog
that ought to have been kept in the
midst of a large city where new
faces are seen every day and the
dog has no chance to know his
constant visitors. I cannot say
anything in criticism of the mag
istrate's decision in this case on the
facts as presented to him." he said,
referring to the statute covering
the charge against the dog Judge
Owens said that the law allowed
him to alternative of banishing the
dog from the neighborhood. The
case that has held almost as much
attention as a trial for a human
life ended abruptly as Judge Ow-
ems summarized; Upon your as
surance that the dog will be taken
to Delaware and kept there / direct
that she be so removed. Delaware
is a small State and there are not
so many people there. But the
dog must be taken away at once"
Skrentny announced THAT is high
ly satisfactory to u.s." Lambkin,
the future keeper was in court and
assured the court that he would
take care of Ming Toy. Eight wit
nesses took the stand before the
case was dismissed Miss Doris
Baker, one of the victims testified
that she had answered the tele-
phone in the apartment house in
which she lived on June 8 and that
the call was for Mrs. Boulden. 81
walked through the hall to call her
and as was walking back the dog
leaped on me and bit my face and
neck" Miss Baker with her par
ents occupy the third floor apart
ment in the same apartment house
where Mrs. Boulden lives. She
said that she had lived at this ad-
dress for about eight months and
always had regarded the dog as
unfriendly. She said that she was
aware that the dog had litter of
puppies the day preceding the at
tack. The puppies were in the
same room where the attack occur
red but she told the court that she
had not molested them. Marshall
Baker, Is, Miss Bakers brother,
told of being attacked by the dog
three days later in the rear yard
of the apartment. At that time,
the youth said, Mrs. Boulden asked
policeman to kill the dog and Of
fered butcher knife for the pur-
pose. Two veterinarians who ex-
amined the dog testified that they
did not regard the dog as naturally
vicious but attributed her i'll
temper to recent motherhood.
Anyway Ming. Toy must leave Bal
timore and Delaware is her "Elba"
from which she must never return.