HIS DOG TESTIFIED FOR HIM.
Its Spots Saved Albert King a Police
Court Fine.
The fact that Albert King, a negro, was the posessor of a black and white spotted dog and not a yellow canine, saved him from a stiff fine on a charge of vagrancy in police court yesterday. It developed that a negro with a yellow dog had been creating havoc among the chickens in the vicinity of Fifth street and Lydia avenue. King was identified as the man who picked up a chicken and walked away with it the other day when the dog had done its work.
"I admits that," said King "I saw that yaller cur kill that pullet, ad it was layin' in th' road, I just took it. But that yaller dog ain't mine."
Just at that moment King's sister walked into the court room leading a black and white cur.
"Hyah Mose, hyah Mose," said King, pursing up his lips. The dog came to him and seemed awful glad to see him after his night in jail.
"The sister said that King worked whenever he could get it, and cared for herself and her mother.
"That black and white dog has saved him," said Judge Kyle. "If you hadn't appeared here with it, your brother might have been doing time, perhaps innocently. The next time a yellow dog kills a chicken you leave it alone," was the court's final advice.
