DOG BITES PEDESTRIAN
Alsatian Which Saved Girl's Life OWNER PR0SECUTED Aii Alsatian dog which had saved the LU'e of a sinai! giri who feh iuto a flooded river at Meeanee, was tho cause of a prosccution of its owner, Jphu Millett of Napier, labourer, before Mr J. Miller, S.M., in the Napier Magistrate's Court0this morning. Oiarged witb, being the owner of a dog which attacked a man ort tlie highway, he was convicted and ordered to conie up lor sentence il caJioil upuu witluu three months. ! Sergeant G. F. Bonisch said that the dog ran out of the house iu Rark road aiid bit a passing pedestrian, Mr A. £>. Erskine, on tlie leg. The owner said that it had been omitted to tie up the dog on the evening when the attack occufrcd, The dog had never given trouble before, and some time previously, when defendant's daughter had slipped into a- flooded river at Meeanee, he had pullcd lier out.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 209, 20 September 1937, Page 4
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