Animals: Wild Dogs

Out motoring one day last December Mayor Peter E. Demarest of Oakland, N. J., encountered a pack of wild dogs trailing a deer. With a single bullet in his gun he brought down the dogs' leader, a powerful 150-lb. mongrel shepherd. Another dog in the pack viciously charged the Mayor, who had to leap into his car, bang shut the door. Last week he sought revenge.

With 22 other huntsmen, including an oldtime Michigan wolf hunter, Mayor Demarest set out into the snow-covered hills. Breaking up into groups of four or five, the...

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