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The Daily Dispatch: January 12, 1864., [Electronic resource], Confederate prisoners at Johnson's Island. (search)
A Magistrate Assaulted by Vicious dogs. --Senior Alderman Sanxay made a complaint before His Honor yesterday morning that some days since, while he was in the pursuit of his legitimate business, near the Lancasterian School, he was attacked in the yard of a negro man belonging to Mr. Benjamin Davis by a large bull dog and a fice in a most determined and ferocious manner. By a hard struggle he succeeded in escaping from the yard, but was pursued into the street, and for some time thought he should be torn to pieces. Finally, however, some gentlemen came to his relief, with whose assistance he was enabled to get off without injury. Subsequently he instructed officer Adams to have the dog killed; but that officer, doubting Mr. Sanxay's authority to give such an order, had deferred doing so till the present time. The Mayor justified the officer in his refusal to execute the animal without further inquiry into the matter, and took the ground that, as these dogs were in their owner