Murder Prevented by a Dog

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 118, 12 April 1887, Page 3

Murder Prevented by a Dog

A farmer living at Castelnaudary, in the Department of the Audie, has had, owing to the prompt fidelity of his dog, a narro v escape from being murdered. The details uf the case read like a chapter of a dramatic tale by Sue or Dumas.' The farmer had just returned with his dog from the fields as night was beginning to fall. His wife told him, on his entering the house, that she had eriving a glass of wine to a strange man, who had come to her pleading thirst, and that the person had then gone away. The dog, however, began sniffing about the place, and suddenly barking aloud with savage fury it flew under its master's bed and seized the strange man, who was hiding there, by the throat. The fellow tried in vain to ! throw off the animal, but it tore out bis windpipe and killed him. The gendarmes were then sent for, and they found a dagger, a revolver, and a thieves' whistle in the pockets of the deceased. Bidding everybody to go quietly into a room and to remain quiet, one of the gendarmes blew the whistle with all his might at an open window. The device succeeded admirably, for in less than ten minutes four ruffians appeared on the scene and entered the house. They were immediately arrested, and did not offer the slightest resistance.