A MURDER PREVENTED BY A DOG.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 2820, 9 August 1890, Page 6 (Supplement)

A MURDER PREVENTED BY A DOG.

o I'.Mils (says the correspondent of the I'aily Telegraph) might hive been now ringing with the murder of another tbini,llllll'liuii; but for the action of a faithful poodle. Some days since, a damsel, linnjr in a certain street not far from the Opera, received a vfoit from a good-for-nothing and impecunious cousin, who represented himself to be on the verge of destitution. Tα kins; pity on her relative, the woman sheltered him, and ordered her cook to provide him with daily meals until he found employment. On Tuesday morning, June 3rd, the damsel received, to the knpwlcdge of her cousin, the sum of Cl2O. Then she went out, and returned with the sender of the money in the evening. While the two ■wore conversing together, they were attracted by the. conduct of an iiitellij/eiit poodle, the do:,' of the >ln l il-m;),il,n,ir, which b-:'.-an to bark and pull its mistress by the -Ir.-ss h'wards the window ourtaiirn. fiiiji. 11...1 Uy ■■urinsity the yoiins.' .-.in in i>..k. when iif-;i' amiable cousin ivn 'li-.:|..-; :.i t'i view in a orouehins; arfi ii'l.', ami hfildiii'j; in lii-> hands a very heavy hammer, and n. earvinf; knife. I',: ■ I, ; :; ; - -■: if- (!vt the rascal had tried to b'l'V, op m tin , place wherein his cousin kept her money, and failing in this h>: had resolved to murder her and tii take h:i' kiy l! , iittor her friend had hit Tin: man protested energetically nv-iinst till , insinuation that he eontemi'l'iU'd liinrdor ; but he admitted that he ii.id iiikndeil to steal the money.