MAD DOG.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3366, 4 November 1911, Page 10

MAD DOG.

TAKES CHARGE OF NEW YORK FLAT’. • Exel Dahlfens, a 3 r oung plumber, went t-o his home in New York the other night to find l his parents ousted from their flat, most of the neighborhood standing in front of his home in a state of great excitement, and the stairs and hallways of the apartment house jammed with a yelling crowd of men and women, who told Axel that his fox terrier 'Duke had gone mad and was tearing up everying in the flat. The Dahlfeuses had noticed that something : was wrong with Duke the previous day, when he snapped at one of the members of the family something he had never done before. Andrew. Judson, a friend of Axel, came in the evening before, and as ho patter Duke the terrier bit him on the hand. Axel and Judson went dow r n to the Pasteur Institute to have the wound cauterised, and the doctors warned-the plumber to tie up his dog. He went back to bind! Duke to the kitchen door with many strands of picture wire. '"When the Danifeuses got 'up they found that the dog had 'bitten ■ through the wire and was growling round the kitchen. He was tied up again, to-seat successively through, two dog chains and a rope which Mrs Dahlfeus used after Axel had gone to work. When he had the rope off, Duke started for Mrs Dahlfeus and her daughter so fiercely that they ran screaming out of their flat and into a neighbor’s. The dog had then commenced to eat up things. He was tearing at two feather-stuffed pillows, when Axel came home. Axel managed to back the dog into the kitchen again by flourishing a heavy club, and then he and) his father went out and got Policeman Hehir, who came hack with a still larger crowd at his heels. Hehir peeped through the kitchen door, and the dog sprang at him. He struck Duke with his club, and thought he had killed him, but as he stepped in the door the dog jumped again, and Hehir let go with his revolver, killing the animal.