[ London Times ]
This newspaper, most correctly known simply as The Times, began publication in 1785 and continues to this day.
The August 21, 1867 edition of The Times carried a legal ledger which included another case of a Newfoundland attacking an innocent passer-by.
The case involved a Miss Kipping, in Marylebone (a higher-end area in west London ), who was charged with "allowing a ferocious dog to be at large and unmuzzled." A young man reported that "as he was passing along, the dog — a large Newfoundland — sprang at his throat. He put up his arm, when the dog bit him through the muscle. (He exhibited an apparently dangerous wound caused by the bite.) When the dog rushed upong him he had not given it the slightest provocation."
Several witnesses testified that the dog had been known to attack other people, including at least half a dozen children, and the presiding magistrate remarked "it no doubt was a dangerous dog to be at large. There was truth in what one of the witnesses said, that Newfoundland dogs were treacherous and would fly at any one immediately after playing with them."
Miss Kipping, the Newfoundland's owner, was fined 40 shillings and costs and ordered to keep her dog tied up.
This is not the first such instance of Newfoundlands being involved in 'ferocious dog' attacks that The Times has reported; see this note on a similar incident that transpired in 1825.