DANGEROUS DOG
BIT MAN’S LEG OWNER BEFORE COURT Having been bitten on the thigh by a small terrier, Clarence Blackburn informed the police, and Alfred J. Lowry appeared at the Magistrate’s Court this morning on a charge of keeping a dangerous dog. Blackburn said that he was carting shingle to Lowry’s home and knocked on the door to make some inquiries. A. small dog flew out and bit him, breaking the skin through a pair of trousers and a pair of overalls. “I went away and had my leg painted with iodine, then I informed the police,” continued witness. "I did not like to unload the shingle with the dog still at large.” Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M.: You should have dropped the shingle on tlie dog. For defendant, Mr. Singer said that the onus was on the police to prove that the dog was known to be dangerous. "As a matter of fact,” said counsel, “the dog is very quiet. It is now under proper control.” Remarking that the case might have been brought under another section of the Act, the magistrate ordered defendant to pay costs.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 453, 7 September 1928, Page 1
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