Pink Guthrie, celebrated negro citizen of Chapel Hill, crawled under a house after a mad dog last Sunday afternoon. Having shot at the dog and considering himself a capable marksman, he thought he was going after a corpse. But the dog, still very much alive, leapt at him and bit a section of his nose off.
A few minutes later, at the infirmary, Dr. Abernethy gathered the loose part and the stationary part of the nose together, took a few stitches, and dismissed Pink practically as good as new.
Dr. Calvert Toy began administering the Pasteur anti-rabies treatment Monday and will continue it, one injection a day, for three weeks.
Pink lives on the southwest edge of the village, out beyond Isaac W. Pritchard’s home. When he heard there was a mad dog nearby, he issued forth from his home with a gun. He shot, and the dog went under the house of the next-door neighbor, presumably to die. Pink proceeded after him. There was a furious yowling from the fugitive, and a second later a wail from the pursuer.
Pink’s entrance into the infirmary, at an hour when Dr. Abernethy was rendering his regular vesper services to a string of patients, caused much excitement.
From the front page of The Chapel Hill Weekly, Friday, Feb. 19, 1926
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