[ "Newfoundland Dog Lynched" / New York Times ]
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The issue of May 15, 1899, carried the following horrific news item under the headline "Newfoundland Dog Lynched":
A lynching episode is alleged to have taken place in Flatbush on Wednesday last, and the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals will be asked to investigate it. The victim was black and is alleged to have been of exemplary character.
His name was Rover, and he was attached to the household of Louis Smith of 64 Erasmus Street. He was a Newfoundland dog, and the Smiths say that he would not hurt a child. That is is not figure of speech is shown by the fact that the Smiths used harness him to a small cart in which sat the younget of the Smiths and use him as a horse.
Policeman Owens of the Flatbush force is not a child, and perhaps it was for that reason that when he appeared in Erasmus Street on Wednesday, swinging a club, Rover took a dislike to him and lacerated his left hand. Owens went to the Kings Country Hospital and had his wounds cauterized. Later he called on the Smiths, got Rover, and took him away. It is alleged that Owen and other policemen hung Rover up to a steam pipe until life was extinct. They then cut him down and threw him into a vacant lot opposite the station. (2)