REFUSES TO GIVE UP THE DOG.

MISS ETHEL SMITH ATTACKED BY AN ADVERTISING CANINE.

Her Left Arm Lacerated - The Owner of the Animal Raises a Legal Point Which Saves the Life of the Dog.

While walking along Selby avenue, Wednesday afternoon, Miss Ethel Smith, of 593 Iglehart street, a daughter of T. F. Smith, manager of the Polk Directory company's local office, was the victim of a vicious assault from a trade mark dog, the property of a sewing machine agent. The dog is a powerful greyhound, well known from the fact that his sides bear advertising for the sewing machine company which he represents.

Miss Smith was entirely unprepared for the assault and the dog bit her several times on the left arm before she realized what was the matter. She finally succeeded in beating him off, but not until she had been wounded and her clothing torn in several places. The affair brought on a serious nervous attack, from which she has not yet recovered.

On learning of his daughter's experience with the advertising canine, Manager Smith at once visited the central station and reported the affair, asking that the dog be shot as a dangerous animal. Chief Goss sent a sergeant with Mr. Smith to demand the dog from its owmers, but they made a strenuous protest, holding that the dog was not dangerous. They refused to surrender the animal. Mr. Smith visited the corporation attorney, from whom he learned that he could not have the dogs life, unless he had established that the dog had a bad record as a menace to the public safety and welfare.

Whether the dog realizes the point of the law which saved his life, is a matter of doubt, but Mr. Smith and several others living in his neighborhood have sworn that his days in the land of the living are numbered.

The St. Paul Daily Globe, March 14, 1899

DRIVEN OUT OF TOWN.

The Dog Which Attacked Miss Ethel Smith Had Bitten Others.

A dog wearing pink ear muffs, a bow of orange ribbon on his tail and having a pleasant little habit of making attacks upon pedestrians was the subject of an action in police court yesterday. As stated previously in The Globe, the animal, which is incidentally an advertising canine and wears pretty legends on his sides regarding the merits of a certain brand of sewing machine, made an attack on Wednesday afternoon on Miss Ethel Smith, daughter of T. F. Smith, manager of the Polk Directory company, residing at 593 Iglehart street. The young lady's father was much incensed against the owner of the dog for permitting such an animal to run the streets, and, after exhausting every resource to force the owner to kill the dog, had a warrant sworn out against him yesterday on the charge of keeping a viscious dog.

Since the first account of the dog's assault upon the young lady, which appeared in The Globe on Friday, Mr. Smith has received word from a number of other residents of the hill district regarding lawless actions of the brute. With the additional information, a clear case was made out against the owner of the brute, and Judge Orr yesterday passed upon the case. Elwiss declared that the animal had been sent to Chicago. The judge finally decided to continue the case until Friday, giving the defendent in the action time to produce an express receipt for the dog.