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Tuesday, July 25, 2023

Mad Dog Killed at Peden Residence, July 25, 1923

Mad Dog Killed East of Wilkesboro

A mad dog was shot and killed at the Captain Peden residence east of North Wilkesboro Friday at noon, after, it is feared, having bitten a milk cow owned by Roby Anderson, colored. The children of Marsal Kerley (who lives at the Peden old place) played with a strange dog the evening before but were not bitten, being told by their father when he arrived to not play with the dog. About noon Friday Mrs. Kerley saw the dog having a fit and holloed for Roby Anderson to bring a gun.

However the cow, which has a cut or scratch on the nose, was taken out of the pasture and to the barn and is being watched for the present as a precaution. At the time nothing thought to have been bitten, the dog’s head was not sent to Raleigh. An it seemed too late Monday of course.

Later—Anderson killed his cow.

From the front page of the North Wilkesboro Hustler, Wednesday, July 25, 1923

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