A NARROW ESCAPE FROM BEING MURDERED.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2352, 6 August 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)

A NARROW ESCAPE FROM BEING MURDERED.

A FARMER living at Casteluaudary, in the Department of the Aude, has had, owing to the prompt fidelity of his dog, a narrow escape from being murdered. The details of the case read like a chapter of a dramatic tale by Sue or Dumas. The farmer had just returned with his dog from thn fields as night was beginning to fall. His wife told him, on his entering the house, that she had given a glass of wine to a strange man who had come to her pleading thirst, and that the person had thou gone away. The dog, however, began sniffing about the place, and, suddenly barking aloud with savage fury, it’ flew under its master's bed, and seized the strange man, who was hiding there, by the throat. The fellow tried in vain to throw off the animal, but it tore out his windpipe and killed him. The gendarmes were then sent for, and they found a dagger, a revolver, and a thieves’ whistle iu the pockets of the deceased. Bidding everybody to go quietly into a room and to remain quiet, one of the gendarmes blew the whistle with all his might at an open window. The device succeeded admirably, for in less than ten minutes four ruffians appeared on the scene, and entered the house. They were immediately arrested, and did not offer the slightest resistance.