Disasters · Newspaper clippings · Pennsylvania

Vintage news: woman accidentally kills husband while trying to save him from dog attack

Sarah Tonin

August 22, 1903
Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania
The wife of a man being attacked by a dog attempts to use an axe against the animal, but instead chops into her husband’s leg, severing an artery and killing him


The Fort Wayne Sentinel. Aug 22, 1903

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