FIGHT WITH A MAD DOG.

Taihape Daily Times, 29 July 1919, Page 2

FIGHT WITH A MAD DOG.

CHILDREN SAVED BY A WOMAN. LONG BATTLE. A brave Frenchwoman, Mme. Cloudyser, living in a village outside Paris, risked a horrible death by mastering a mad dog which ran among a crowd of school children. Mme. Coudyser’S neighbour, who ‘owned the dog, tog. her she had chained it up as she thought. it was mad, and went for a veterinary surgeon. A moment later Mme. Coudyser saw 13110 dog, With its mouth foaming, jump the gate and career safter the children coming out‘of school. Mme. Coudyser ran after the dog and seized its ‘throat. The animal struggled furiously. but the woman held tight and shouted to the children to take shelter. She clung to the mad animal for a quarter of an hour, when her son arrived and strangled it with a cord. Mme, Coudyser was not bitten, but she was taken to the Pasteur Iristitute, as her hands were covered with the froth ‘of the animal.