The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 29, 1921, Page 4

AR war, Airedale Trial Defines Dogs’ Rights [Sidetizhts on Cat-Kill er Is [COURT SCENE WHEN DOG FACED ACCUSER, JURY | Joyful Over Legal V ictory| : “Dormic” Barks Relief as 4 Jury Disagrees; Charge of 4 Bi “Murder” Is Precedent. | hae RY GENE COHN { f BAN FRANCISCO, Deo. 29.—Dor Tas won for dogdom certain legal! Fights, as distinct as those estab Misbed for man | A judge has, from the bench and im the presence of a jury, p A Mpon those iecal rights and (thus Bas ostablished a precedent which May affect the great dog popula tion of the United States. Stripped of its whimsy and it humor, Dormie’s trial by Jury on a @harce of “murder” has given the enine work’ «& means of ereape from all the unwritten laws per | taining to domestic animals ant | Wms established a definite code. | Briefy the background of the case ef Dormic is this: A Meense! dog of long pedigree ‘And hence allowed to run about ay Be pleased, Dormie followed hi and, as is the way of with a cat, made war against feline tribe of his neighbor ood. The specific charge was th Milling of Sunbeam, a vatuat Persian-Angora, owned by Mrs. Mar ferie: Inpals. Mrs. Ingals took action under a Ordinance which makes 4 v er dangerous dog liable to tea! or kmprisonment+ behind a Eaton McMillan, owner of Dor Mic, retained Attorney James T | Brennan, who declared the ont Bance farcical, insisted that the lite! death sentence claus, MeMillan was in no way re-| p/ ‘Sponsibie for what happened and a gallmaiaaliealiaet | mal. A jury trial was demanded and) The hearing = Judge Lile T. Jac isagreed. They dasaa ged five for acquittal, Arrcument! Fetrial resulted in a decision] the judge dismissing the case| Some of the unique tees ot] case were: Can a dog and/ Master be held jointly lable? Has ® cat, which is denied a license, iy rights? Has a dog any rights w the law? Inasmuch as the! of man holds a dog to be of nt intellect to Be punished for such action? Can ® @oe’s conera!l reputation be a tacked, or can he be declared a Public nuisance? | The lesal rights of a dog as @atabliched by this precedent. are: He can have trial by jury. 2.—He can demand to be iden ified as the specific dog in a spe/ @ific cat killing. In this instance} Fome 20 dogs, many similar in ap- Pearance, were brought into court Bnd a witness asked to point out Dormie. 2.—The constitutionality of an or. @inance which places his life in! Popardy can be attacked in behalf ef the dog. | 4.—We can claim discrimination: @an plead that there is one law for the rich man's dog and another for the poor man’s. 5.—He can summon witnesses to pass on his general reputation. 6—He can make ciaims that a at has no rights under the law. | In Dormie’s case it was shown that Meensed dogs may roam freely, but M’CORMICK TO MARRY GARDEN? Gold Coast ‘Alive With Ru- mors Following Divorce q CHICAGO, Dec Glety was alive tc with rumors connecting F F. McCormick Ff and Mary Garden, grand opera star 4 When M-Cormick yesterday by his wife. Rockefeller McCormick, Gold Coast so- was a Mrs, Editt daughter of ‘ the world richest man, social lead ers saw fulfilled Mary Garden's pre @iction that she would marry a m Honaire before Their names have been linked for some time. At the magnificent revival of “Sa lome,” last night, where MeCormick and his former wife occupied separ Ate boxes directly opposite each ot er, Garden scored her greatest tri umph in opera, Meanwhile, settlement waa bein effected for the division of the for tunes of two of the richest families in America Mrs. McCormick, who will continue With her extensive study of fe psychology,” pre will , the house on the Coasr fe * Cormick, with Muriel and Fowler, will occupy the Lake Forest country estate, Bureau of Missing Relatives The Star invites ite reuders to ume iin department a» an aid in finding miss The department 4 to help im reuniting those who have been ted. Those whose are missing are inv pearance direct! Readers who may now th column ae to report to re invit GROVER ©. WALIAS—tn 1918 1919 Grover C. Wallis worked in the shipyards in Seattle. His Harry A. Wallis, is now in the city looking for him, as the mother, who lives in Dayton, ©., is very to hear from her son. Harry Wallis Baay be reached at 152 Kepublican st. brother ocene snapped tn San f rancwce pouce court ef the dog was in jeopardy under | charged with the murder of cats, went to trial before a jury. het! stand beside Judge Lile T. Jacks. sx:| Here’s Famous Courtroom Th» following tribute to the dog, made by the late Senator Vest of Missouri in a speech which swayed a jury to fine a man $300 | ‘°° for wantonly killing « neighbor's pet, was repeated by defense at- torney James Brennan before jurers trying the Airedale “Dormic” in San Francisco for killing cats. Excerpts are: 35 cents buys a bottle of wasn Lormie, an * * * % * * *% — — FUNERAL SERVICES for Purr Williama, 44, will be held Sunday at 2p m. at the Mt Zion Baptist Tribute to Dog’s Loyalty |e: orn = seen by Rev Bimett of the University of Washing: Burial will be at lcometery, Williams and hin partner, | Ruseell mith, were operating the |Golden Went hotel, 414 Seventh ave. |S. at the time of hin death “Gentlemen of the jury, a man's DANDERINE jis: crsstoty. to.ci"on"s| RUPTURE EXPERT HERE: |nens, He will sivep on the cold} ——— | ground in wintry winds, if only Me) SEELEY, FAMOUS IN THIS may be near his master’s side. Ho SPECIALTY, CALLED Stops Hair Coming Out; | sii kie the hand that has ne TO SKATTLE |food to offer, he will lick the nat Thickens, Beautifies. | wounds that come in encounters} p fr Seeley. of Chicago and) jwith the world He guards (| priiadeiphia, the noted truss expert, j sleep of bin pauper master an if} is now at the Washington hotei.| he were @ prince, When all other! ang wil! remain in Seattle Friday and | friends desert he remains. When| Saturday, December 30, 31. Mr Bee riehes take wings and reputation ley myn falls to pieces, be ts as constant in| “Phe spermatic Shield wil! not only hin love aa the sun In ite journey./ retain any case of ruptire perfectly, [If fortune drives the master forth] put contracts the opening in 10 daye an outcast In the world, friendlew|on the average cane, Heing a vant ad and homelemm, the faithful dog ask* | vancement over all former methods privilege than that of) exemplifying taneous effects accompanying him to guard aguinat|immoediately appreciable gnd with jd@anger, to fight against bis ene | standing any strain or position. This no higher mies, And when the last scene of|instrument received the only award fall comes, thére hy his gravenside/in England and in Spain, producing | will the dog be found, and/ results without surgery, injections, medical treatments or preacriptions. 8 ey — a Mr. Beeley has documents from the 1LO8 ANGELES. Washing from Vancouver, B, C. canes of liquor aboard, Capt. master of the schooner Lady Mine, did not have the boos upon arrival | here. He explained to custome off. clgis that he had to jettison the lia-+ —Altho tee atarted | United States government, 1,004| ton, D. C. for inspection. He will All,|be glad to demonstrate without charge or fit them if deatred. Busi nem nands prevent stopping at r place in thin section ‘Every statement in lz even in death.” | wander this oan seal — Soon | ine” at any drug store. After one, wor es by a cargo ied pg hig vob. 5 - bd, it was argued, had the de.| “pplication you can not find a par-| was billed to Eflhenada, Mexico, ¢ | : —F. ticle of dandruff or a falling hair. | Seeley geesed cats been so kept Dormie! pesides, every hair shows new lif ARCADIA, Pla.—TAeut, Samuel H. | Home Office, 117 North Dearborn 8t., ould not have attacked them. brightness, more color an d Lieut, W n C. 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Restaurants, Inc. wredale aog jormally| He is shown on the witness | Insets are of Mrs. Marjorie Ingals, complaining witness; | dogs brought in by the defense to test identification, and cldse-up of Dormie doin g his! best to tell the court his version of. the case. | Lake View| Dog Trial BAN FTIANCIBCO, Dev Varee, pathos, ironic hurme 1 sentimentality figured in trial of Dormie, Atredale ouned of killing 14 oats. Th complaining witness all but Mapaed in hysterios at on point, ‘The judge nid aside h dignity and rocked with laughte in bis chair Jurors howled the Klee—only the owner of dead cats and the prosecutors main taining stern vinage A small Menagerie of assorted logs was brought into court in an effort to confune witnennes regarding the exact identity of the cat killer, F, 1. Stone, witnew for the wtate, tentified: “That dog war after a cat of mine.” Defense Attorney Brennan “We object! How does he know what wae in the dog's mind.” Marjorie Ingals, prosecuting witnens: “And he killed three cats of mine—" Attorney Brennan: “We move that two cats be atricken out But one killing te charged Attorney Brennan to witnesm “Did Mr, McMillan bite a cat? Witnoms: “No, sir.” Attorney: “Did MoMillan chase a cat?” Witnewe “No, sir.” , Attorney: “Then, your honor, we plead that there was no complicity between the master and the dog. We hold that Me Millan is charged merely with owning a dog. He did not bits the cat The dog bit the cat, and there l nothing to show that MeMillan was interested in the biting of the cat.” Brennan to fury in dementia Aire plead Irresistible Attorney ‘Our defense dais, and woe impulse.” envied by all hf the chap who rid EXCEIAION MOTORCYCLE @ BICYCLE CO, Seattic Retailers 201 Pine st Kites 0907. 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