Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1912 — BISHOP IS BITTEN BY DOG [ARTICLE]

BISHOP IS BITTEN BY DOG

Churchman Tries to Separate Fight* ing Animals and Buffers Injuries from His Own Pet. London. —The Bishop of Birmingham, Dr. Russell Wakefield, was badly bitten while trying to separate two dogs which had started a furious fight. His lordship was walking in the neighborhood of his residence, Bishopscroft, Edgbaston, when his favorite dog, which always accompanies him on his early morning walks, quarreled' and fought with another dog. The bishop eaughthbld bf his own dog by the collar when the animal furiously attacked him and bit him several times, on the right hand, causing deep wounds. The bishop returned borne, and sent for a doctor, who cauterized and dressed the wounds. In the afternoon the bishop attended the prize distribution at the Church of England college with his right arm in a sling and his hand bandaged. Sir Walter Fisher, the chairman of the meeting, announced that the bishop's injuries were said by the doctor to be going on quite satisfactorily.