“PETER THE GREAT” SHOT
By a Judgment of the Superior Court at Los Angeles, Mr. Fred Cyriacks. a wealthy Hollywood landowner, will pay a total sum of £25,000 for having shot and instantly killed a cinema “star” as he sat in a motor-car in front of Mr. Cyriack's house one day last year, the dead actor being a dog named “Peter the Great." The action was brought by the dog s owners. Mr. Edward Faust and Mr. Charles Dreyer, who were awarded £20.000 as the value of the dog, and £ 5,000 for damages caused by his death. During the trial Mr. Cyriacks attempted to prove that Mr. Faust and his companion drove up to his house in a drunken condition, and that, fearing violence, he had aimed warning shots at the pavement.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 276, 11 February 1928, Page 23
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132“PETER THE GREAT” SHOT Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 276, 11 February 1928, Page 23
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