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Show SECTION TWO PROVO (UTAH) SUNDAY HERALD, SUNDAY, JUNE 20, 1937 PAGE THREE TALES OF REAL DOGS KING: The playground of the King Street School in Chappaqua, New York, was in wild ferment one March day. A minute earlier the boys and girls had been making the most of the brief recess hour. A group of them had been romping with the school's acknowledged pet and mascot. King, a Belgian shepherd dog. Then confusion and yells burst forth. All the children rushed rush-ed to one corner of the yard. There they found Francis Brown ;i weeping eight-year-old boy. He was nursing a bitten finger. King stood wagging his furry tail in perplexity, as though wondering what all the excitement was about. Between sobs, Francis declared King had attacked him right viciously vici-ously at a moment when the youngster had just stubbed his toe and while he still was lying PROVO SAT. June 2 Performances 2 and 8 p. m CIRCUS GROUNDS AIRPORT 2 All Steel Trains Downtown Ticket Sale CM mi Day at Schramm-Iohnson Drug Provo 's -Si OWsf BIRTH OF AMERICA Entire Proceeds of this Celebration (iocs to S PROVO HOSPITAL FIND K:::::::rJ cs f IVr RJf COMBINED NEW YEAR -' y y " V M M it YYv mi in ASK Belgian Shepherd helpless on the ground. If Francis had claimed that the kindliest kindergarten teacher in the whole school had flown at him and bitten him, the amazement of his listeners could not have been greater. For King was the friendliest friend-liest and jolliest of canine pals; and he loved and was loved by every child there. Never had he shown the slightest slight-est taint of viciousness, no matter hew roughly his little human friends might caress him or romp with him. Daily he visited the school grounds, coming thither from the inn of his owner, Wilbur Herman. Daily his advent was greeted with delight by all the boys and girls. He was their accepted ac-cepted comrade. And now he was accused of a ferocious and uncalled-for attack on a prostrate child that could not protect himself against the savage onslaught. The story traveled fast through Chappaqua; and it lost no flesh in each dramatic retelling. The town was abuzz with the direful tidings. Francis' father, George Brown, a truckman, clamored for justice. Other folk said the whole story was absurd. More neighborhood feuds have their origin in disputes over livestock live-stock than from almost all other causes put together. The dispute over l ing waxed hot and hotter. The dog was ordered into the custody of the local S. P. C. A., and was placed duly under arrest. A few days later, under S. P. C. A. escort, he was marched to court to stand trial for his life. As always when a dog goes on trial there was widespread inter- i est everywhere. Motion picture cameramen and reporters and special spe-cial writers from metropolitan newspapers flocked to the courtroom. court-room. 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Francis was called to the stand. Under the prosecution's questions he retold the tale of stumbling and falling to the ground, and of King's leaping at him as he lay there, and of the vicious bite. Parents in the courtroom murmured mur-mured to one another. Things seemed to be going so badly for King that a death-sentence must be inevitable. The schoolchildren looked keenly distressed. One or two of them began to whimper. Then Stevens opened the defense. de-fense. And an able defense it was, as he conducted it. He called on witnesses to testify as to King's invariable gentleness. He pointed out that no vicious dog would choose a school's grounds as his favorite resort and little children as his playfellows. " Are dogs to go to our school or are our children to go to school?" passionately demanded Saxon, the prosecution's lawyer. But his eloquence availed noth MEETING STREET PARADE . r. rr .A. . i iiiui or I I v ilL Spectacle! GIFTS! REE GIFT TICKETS PAVSON TERHUNE Life ing, in the face of one boy's testimony. testi-mony. This boy, John Dennis, testified he had seen King jumping jump-ing high in air to catch a stick Which Francis had been holding up for him, and that the bite was intended for the stick and not for the finger which grasped it. Now this gave a brand new slant to the entire case. As every dog-man dog-man knows, a dog which jumps for a high-held stick may often close his teeth by mistake on the holder's finger. It is not a matter of viciousness but of inaccurate aim. King's chances for life grew brighter, all at once. Stevens called the bitten boy back to the stand. Francis retold his story, then, gently but shr ewd-ly. ewd-ly. the defense attorney began to take that story apart. At last, Francis broke out crying under the barrage of kindly-worded crossquestioning. He was allowed to go back to his seat beside his father. Meantime, the cameras were flashing from every direction. direc-tion. "I'm going to cut my case as short as I can," observed Stevens, wiping his perspiring brow, "because "be-cause the movie camera lights arc toasting my forehead." He went on to ask for a dismissal dismis-sal of the case, (which meant a triumphant acquittal for King), on the ground that the prosecu- ? Dances- HKTftRir mmmf II IUI 11 111 HIKIt viuuun m i rocecds of this Celebration Goes to PROVO HOSPITAL FUND tion had not been able to prove Its claims. Judge Hamilton Hicks overrode the prosecution's protest, and declared de-clared the dog not guilty. That was the signal for an immediate im-mediate unplanned ovation. More than two-hundred-and-fifty of the courtroom's throng of children and adults sprang to their feet and surged forward. They shoved aside the scandalized scandal-ized court officers and policemen who tried to restore order, and they flocked happily around their chum. King, petting him and cheering and telling him what a grand dog he was and how glad ) they were that he was free again. Seldom has a sedate courtroom been the scene of such wholesale pollification. Nor does Justice Hicks seem to have done anything drastic to check the jubilee, nor even to have reprimanded the joyously joy-ously vociferous spectators. Not every day does a dog go on trial for his life and win so glori-our glori-our an acquittal. Not every day does the Law prove itself the friend and protector of the canine race. It was a special occasion, all around. All praise to Justice Hicks for letting King's human friends give vent to their enthusiasm! I wonder what King's later career may have been. Were there some Chappaqua folks who still believed him savage and who kept their children from romping with him? I hope he never inflicted in-flicted another such accidental bite. For not even the cleverness of Stevens could have gotten him off so easily a second time nor indeed gotten him off at all. The old proverb: "Give a dog a bad name and you may as well hang him," is as potent today as when it first was voiced in medieval medie-val England, where, by the way, condemned dogs almost invariably were put to death by hanging. And, in spite of his acquittal, King must have had to walk warily for the rest of his life, even though the one black mark against him had been temporarily erased. (Copyright 1937, McNaught Syndicate) SPRINGVILLE SOCIETY Among the nicely arranged and enjoyable parties of the weeK was the miscellaneous shower given for Miss Melba Hall by her four sisters-in-law, Mrs. Naomi Hall, Mrs. Delia Hall, Mrs. Mildred Hall and Mrs. Virginia Hall, Thursday evening at the home of the bride's mother at Mapleton. The rooms were especially beautiful, decorated decorat-ed in pink and white roses and peonies and other flowers of the season. An enjoyable program featured the entertainment with musical readings given by Miss Pauline Boyer. accompanied by 'her mother, Mrs. Mary S. Boyer; Italian solos by Mrs. Helen C. Towers, accompaned by Mrs. Vir-gila Vir-gila Bird; piano selections by Miss Frances Rose of the Northwestern North-western university; harmonica selections, se-lections, by Mrs. Helen C. Towers; readings, Mrs. Delia Hall; piano selection, Mrs. Virgil Bird. At the close of the party dainty refreshments re-freshments were served to about 50 relatives and close friends who came from Salt Lake City, Provo, Spanish Fork, Springville and Mapleton. Many useful and beautiful beau-tiful gifts were presented to the honor guest. Mrs. Genevieve Orr of Grants-ville Grants-ville has returned to her home after a months visit with her daughter, Mrs. C. G. Russell and family in this city. Members of the S. T. club will be entertained at the home of Mrs. Floss Phillips on Thursday evening, June 24, at 8 o'clock. Mr. and Mrs. J. Emmett Bird returned recently from an enjoyable enjoy-able trip to California where they visited relatives. They returned by way of the northwestern states visiting interesting places in Washington and Oregon. Mrs. Beth Dallin and children have returned to their home in Ocean Park, Calif., after spending a few days with relatives and friends in Springville. Mrs. Dallin came especially to attend the June M. I. A. and Primary conference con-ference in Salt Lake City. Members of the Busy Finger club and their partners were pleasantly pleas-antly entertained at a canyon party at Sulphur Springs on Wednesday Wed-nesday night. A sumptuous supper sup-per was served at one long table and the group enjoyed the time with games and music. 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