Show FIGHTS MAD DOG TO age HER SON MOTHER TEARS JAWS OF RABID ANIMAL FROM BOY WITH BARE HANDS HOLDS BRUTE TILL AID COMES mr mrs richard richards of yonkers new york win desperate battle hi hurl iris animal to street where bullet awaits him new york la in the long honor list of courageous mothers who have brand appalling d dangers angers in the defense of their children the name of mrs ira E J richards ada rda yonkers merits a high place mrs nita richards nic hards heart ta 13 centered in n her five year old eon son vincent who ho while playing in front of hia his home the other afternoon was attached by a mad dog the rabid animal had raced a mile milt through van cortlandt park avenue ap spreading reading terror As he dashed toward the he child pl playing in the grassy bide side ut the roadway there waa vias a chorus of 0 many cries but the uproar was as meaningless to little vincent and lh lit another moment the foaming jan jaa a had closed fast upon hia his leg ills shriek of pain and terror as heard by the mother in an kuppr room of the bouse house realizing that no trifling accident could draw such a cry of agony from froin the child she loved far better than hi h r life mrs richard richards rushed downstairs and out into the street she saw a fight sight that would have unnerved most mothers the mad dog bad had attacked the little victim again and again it stood above the helpless hel plesa child snapping and tearing with foaming laws jaws half a dozen men were rushing ex c gedly ar around und fearing to close in upon the mad brute but mrs richards did not hesitate in an instant she had bad sprung upon the dog and caught hie his jans jaa in her hands they were bare hands too but the courageous woman thought nothing of her own danger with strength born of desperation she grabbed the dogs dog s upper jaw law with one hand harld and the lower with the other the fangs were fastened in the k le 1 A caught his jaws in its her han hani i child a leg but with a mighty tug the woman woman pulled them apart run to the house dearl she cried to her eon son who covered with blood and dazed with terror managed to drap drax himself away dinger for the boy had passed and the woman then thought of her own life knowing that the dog vituld rend her it she released that grip upon his jaws she held on with every t ince of f strength at her command woman and brute locked in desper ale t struggle swayed over the sidewalk and out into the roadway iut but still she clung to the jaws and was holding them wide apart in a grip if tf steel when hen police pollee sergeant van reached the scene drawing his revolver the bluecoat cr cried ad U when hen I 1 give the word throw the dog as tar far away aay from you as you can with her last vestige of strength mrs richards burled the dog far into the roadway van steenberge Steen bergs revolver spoke twice tice and the an snarling arling brute roald ivr dead little vincent and torn in lb different places WAS attended by dr kennedy who cauterized all the wounds and sewed up the larger one ones mrs richards came out of her thrill lug ing battle without a scratch the body of the dog was removed to the stealth bureau for examination |