Dog Brings Home Chicken, Bag of Nails, and Then a Dead Baby Girl, 1920

“Solicitor Ehringhaus Got Rid ‘O That Dog….Didn’t know What That Yellow Hound Pup Would Bring Home Next” from the Oct. 8, 1920 issue of the Elizabeth City Independent

Hon. J.C.B. Ehringhaus, Solicitor of the First Judicial District, has rid himself of his “yaller” hound pup. He got the pup only Tuesday, Sept. 28. Aubrey McCabe gave the pup to the solicitor and the solicitor accepted the pup as a likely playmate for his children.

The pup showed wonderful possibilities from the first. He hadn’t been in the Ehringhaus family a day before he brought home a chicken. The next day, Wednesday, he picked up a bag of nails that some one had lost on the street and brought the bag of nails home. And then on Friday the pup went off and found a new born human girl baby and got almost home with that when the police ran him off the corpse and turned it over to the County Coroner.

 “Of course, I got rid of that dog,” says Mr. Ehringhaus, “because there is no telling what the blamed dog would have brought home next. But I’ll say this for him; he was an honest dog; he brought everything home. I might have kept him after all but I couldn’t keep the dog and my cook too. The cook said she wouldn’t stay where there was a dog that had the ‘flesh spirit.’”