Thursday, May 14, 1942...The Halifax Chronicle, Halifax, N.S. Page 12 PROVOST MASCOT ACCIDENT VICTIM "LADDIE" A REAL PAL AND THE SOLDIER'S FRIEND 1942" That's the way the inscription reads on a block of polished brown granite from Aberdeen Scotland, which stands today in a spot on the north slope of Citadel Hill. The brown granite block rests on another of grey granite from a Purcell's Cove quarry. Nearby is the barracks of No.16 Provost Corps, where the members mourn the loss of their mascot, "the best canine comrade a bunch of fellows ever had." Laddie was owned by Lieut. James Moon of the Provost Corps, but he had been adopted individually by everyone of the men in the unit. The granite block is their memorial to their pal. Tuesday evening Laddie was a frisking frolicking two-year-old dog, full of the joy of living, rejoicing in the comradship of his friends. He had gone out on Cogswell street and was standing near the sidewalk. A moment later he was dead, stricken by a speeding taxicab. In Magistrate Flinn's court yeasterday, when the driver of the taxi, pleaded guilty to a charge of reckless driving, Lieut. Moon told the circumstances of Laddie's death. >From his experience as a former member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Lieut. Moon declared that the driver was going at "considerable more than 40 miles an hour, the dog was killed instantly," he said, "and the driver continued on without stopping to see what he had done." Corpl. R. MacNaughton of the Provost Corps gave chase on a motorcycle. He caught up to the taxi driver when he stopped about half mile from the scene to examine a headlight broken when his car struck the dog. When the taxi driver saw Corpl. MacNaughton approaching he again took off, but the latter over took him and forced him against the curb. Laddie was a German police dog - but no Nazi he!. "He was a great dog." Lieut. Moon told a reporter.... Two years ago when i was a member of the Mounties, i brought him home from Plymouth, Pictou county, a ball of fluff in a shoebox, on the luggage carrier of my motorcycle. "Laddie would have been two years old next month." Lieut. Moon continued. " He was a one-man dog, like so many of his breed, but he was the firm friend of any man in uniform. We've got a great bunch of fellows in the Provost Corps." Perhaps Laddie was a good judge of human nature. In court yesterday, Magistrate Flinn fined the taxi driver $23 and costs on the reckless driving charge, with the option of spending a month in City Prison - but that was small consolation to the sorrowing members of No.16 Provost Corps. ==