Bit the Postman

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 74, 18 June 1927, Page 13

Bit the Postman

SUBURBAN DOG’S MISDEED TORE A TROUSER LEG Postmen should keep up an assiduous practice at that brand of schoolboy cricket known as “tip and run.” They need to be fast off the mark when the suburban house-dogs look sideways on them. Postman Ivan Edward Jackson failed under the acid test in Hemi Street, Devonport, recently and lost part of the leg of his trousers to Walter Vincent Burns’s Prince Charles spaniel. Not content with the tweed diet the Burns’s maneater tasted Postman Jackson’s leg. Before Mr. W. R. McKean, S.M., in the Magistrate Court yesterday, Walter Vincent Bums was charged with being the owner of a dog which did attack Ivan Edward Jackson. Jackson explained that he delivered letters to Mrs. Ivor and was just about to move away when the dog expedited his departure by setting on to him. He had to spend 10s 6d in getting his leg dressed and the cost of repairs to his nether garments was 12s Bd. Dogs were a great annoyance to postmen, but they didn’t as a rule complain. Mr. Alan Moody, for Burns, explained that the dog was in Mrs. Ivor’s keeping. The attack was a trivial matter. Defendant had asked the doctor, who had only to put a precautionary dab of iodine on the leg. to certify him for a week’s holiday. Jackson bad been offered his expenses immediately. The charge was dismissed on the payment of costs.