Jeff and Major were two very large Irish terriers owned by Frederick Trevor Hill, a well-to-do attorney on Wall Street and a prolific author of novels about politics and the law. The dogs were trained as police dogs. On February 20, 1925, the two Irish terriers came to the rescue of Mary Elizabeth Donnet, a […]
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1925: The Heroic Irish Terriers that Saved a New York Heiress
Posted: 16th April 2013 by The Hatching Cat in Dog TailsTags: Charles W. Oakes, Irvington, J.H. Whitehouse, Mary Elizabeth Donnet, New York History, Old New York, The Larches, Woodlands Lake
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