1891 Fatal Pit Bull Attack – John Doe Meyer

Posted on October 23, 2011 by notforgotten

April 1891, Dubuque County, IA
John Doe Meyer, 10-years old
Fatal dog attack: bulldog (pit bull-type)

News Boiled Down
The 10-year old son of H. H. Meyer, a milkman living at Dubuque, Iowa, was fatally bitten by a savage bulldog yesterday.
Henry Sheer, a wealthy farmer living at Millston, Wisconsin, died yesterday from the effects of some poison which he was using in his potato field…
-The Quincy Daily Journal, April 28, 1891 (archive.quincylibrary.org)

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