DOG FIGHTS BURGLAR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 25 March 1907, Page 4

DOG FIGHTS BURGLAR.

Edgbaston, the largo and fashionable suburb of Birmingham, is greatly excited over a burglar's attack on a lady and her rescue by a boarhonnd, details of whichhave lately come to hand. Mrs Rogers, of Poplar .avenue, Edgbaston, tho wife of a, Birmingham auctioneer, was sitting in hoi drawing-room when slic heard a mysterious scraping at a window. She \vo*> entirely alone, the maid having gono out and her husband being still in town; and jaralysed with tcu-vor she was unable to move from her chair. The lower fart of tha window was violently pushed up and a rough-looking man sprang into tho room, and seizing Mrs Rogers by the shoulder demanded money. All this time Mis Rogers' pet boarhound had been peaceably sleeping beneath the table,*" but when Mrs Rogers called out to the dog it sprang at the ruffian and fastened its long teeth in his throat. A fierce struggle between the man and tho dog ensued, during which Mrs Rogers fainted. When she came to herself the man was gone but the room was in utter disorder, tables and chairs Ixiiny overturned and the whole plaoo saturated with blood. No trace of the man has been discovered. The dog was unhurt.