Former Officer's Siberian Bloodhound Attacks Woman
A retired Tacoma policeman faces charges after his imported bloodhound escapes and attacks a local woman.
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J. A. Mitchell, until recently a police officer on the Tacoma force, was arrested yesterday charged with keeping a vicious dog. The dog, which was recently brought from the Covington, Ky., penitentiary, is a Siberian bloodhound, and recently broke loose from his fastenings, severely biting a woman in the arm. The case will be tried in police court as soon as the complaining witness is able to appear.
“The dog, which was recently brought from the Covington, Ky., penitentiary, is a Siberian bloodhound.”
While Siberian bloodhounds are not common in modern headlines, the legal responsibility of dog owners for their animals remains a staple of civic police court dockets in Tacoma.
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