Show I INVALID AND OOC WAGE nE TI1 FIGHT DOUGLAS H RIKER SMOTHERS MAD BEAST IN BED WITH I FINAL DESPERATE EFFORT iI i I FAINTS ON BODY OF FOE I Animals FoamFlecked Jaws Snap I Time and Again at Masters ThroatMan Victim of I Series of Accidents New Yorll1 with pleuro pneumonia pneu-monia and too weak to scream for help Douglas Hudson flitter u publisher pub-lisher battled for his life with an Infuriated In-furiated bulldog Ho was found hours afterward unconscious stretched across tho lifeless body of tho dog which ho had smothered with n blanket The Bikers live In tho Mlnnetonka apartment houso HiooMyn and It was thero that the struggle with the infuriated In-furiated animal occurird The dog an English l hull was presented to the publisher In Florida last month Rlker returned to Brooklyn and was taken 111 almost Immediately I While ho was very weak his chest Incased In surgical wrappings ho was left alone for several hoes as ho way Bleeping Mrs RIKer the mother of the young man was In an adjoining room also asleep Tho dog wandered Into the sick mans room and stretched out on a rug After midnight Mr Rlker was awakened awak-ened from his sleep by a weight upon the bed The dog was standing on his chest Ho tried to push the brute away and tho next Instant It snapped at him Not realizing his danger Rlker again tried to throw tho dog from him and the beast with a growl sprang for his throat In tho dim light of the room Mr Rlker seized the animal by the throat and held It at arms length from him It continued to struggle at times forcing Its open jaws to within a few Inches of his face so that Its hot breath fanned his cheeks The sick man tried to call for help but the weight on his chest and his Inability to speak above a whisper prevented while with both hands engaged en-gaged ho was prevented from ringing Y i tl 1 t t tlh t as He Forced the Head of the Dog Into the Bedclothes tho bell at his bedside So he continued contin-ued his struggle with the dog whoso anger at being held Increased until It frothed at the mouth and the foam was flecked about him How long hoi struggled Mr Rlker does not know But It seemed to him an hour Every minute ho could feel his strength grow less In one of the moves made In the struggle a blanket became twisted and Interfered with the movements of tho dog It gave tho sick man the Idea and his presence of mind did tho rest He forced tho head of the dog Into tho mass of bed clothes and between the beasts efforts to free himself and Mr Rlkers to choke him the animals head became thoroughly enmeshed in the blanket In an instant the sick man had wound the blanket about the dog Too weak to hold him longer Mr Hikes no longer fearing his fangs rolled on top of him Tho struggle to hold the brute had told upon tho invalid and when ho gained tho advantage he fainted It was some hours later when the mother came Into the room to give the patient his medicine Sho found him lying across the bed with the body of the dog beneath him Dr Chllds tho family physician was called at once and found the pa tlents temperature had greatly increased In-creased Mr Rlltor has been tho victim of a series of accidents Ho left this city on January 13 for Florida for an alligator alli-gator hunt with his brother Markhum Dunbar Rlker tho representative of tho General Electric company In FlorIda Flor-Ida The first day on the St Johns river his gun exploded Injuring his brother Ho returned home on the 13th of this month and was met at tho pier by another brother in an automobile At Spring and Uroadwn they ran down a worklngman breaking break-ing his legIt leg-It was this accident that Is thought to have led to his contracting pneu monla Ms1 Riker wrapped his automobile auto-mobile coat about the Injured man and carried him In the auto to the nearest physician |