A statement regarding the attack lby an Alsatian dog on Miss Virginia JCowper, in a North Soochow Road Jerocery' shop, on Saturday evening. was made last Wednesday to a ro-presentative of the. "North-China Herald" by Me. RF, Delbuch pro-lorioter of the shop.
"The dog. which belongs tomy assistant," Mr. Delbuch said, "has been kept chained in the office of the shop, behind a door, except at night, when it has been' given. the run of the place, unmuzzled, as a The other night at about 840 Jo'clock—closing time—Miss Cowper Jcame in to make a purchase. A [Chinese boy and myself were in the store, but I did not know then that jthe boy had already loosed the dog, Jand I did not see the dog, because was behind the counter.
Suddenly, Miss Cowper cried out that she hed been bition and I rushed round: the counter to her assistance. I snatched the dog away, then tried to attend Miss Cowper. I offered her water and iodine for he bites, but she refused assistance. jin my opinion, she had not been badly bitten and I knew the dog Jhad passed an examination by a foreign veterinary about two weeks previously.
No rickshaw coolie had anything to do with the affair, "and no-one Jentered the shop during the oceurrence. The dog had been untied by ithe boy because the boy believed the shop was being closed for the night."
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