Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-03-07
ON THE NEGROES TRAIL.
HOUNDS ON THE SCENT At A
GEORGIA CONVICT CAMP.
An Experiment Made as . Test-Tke
Dogs ut the Start-Followins the
Scent Fifty Yards Away
The Chase Ended.

Inc Cnase En0e0.
Mr. Williams claimed, and be was backed
by Capt James, that any convict could be
selected out of hundred and sent of to
circle through the woods, passing through a
dozen squads of convicts; that an hour after
he could put his hounds on that convict's
track and they would thread him through
the squads Of convicts never be shaken from
his individual track and finally bring him
up. ! remarked that 1 could understand
how the hounds might carry a conyictis
track through a crowd OF outsiders from
some scent OF the camp, but not how they
could separate one convict from another.
There may be hundred convicts," he
said, clothed precisely alike, and wearing
precisely the same shoes. They may feed
together on precisely the same food, and
sleep in hunks that touch each other under
precisely the same cover. And yet each Of
them has a scent that marks him Just as dis
tinctly to my hounds from his fellows, as
his appearance marks him under your de-
iberate study"
A geunt convict, long of leg and flank,
Was selected for the run. He was told to
put OF quickly, circle in the woods, take
swift run over fields, roads, and through
every squad of convicts he could find in his
way. This he did The hounds We're then
loa:iny about the stockade ward. as list.ess a.
lot of dogs as ever were seen. aI,m tempted,
said Mr.. Williams. ito let the convict ride a
ho;s,. for q mile or two after he has run
nwbi,e have had dos trail 81 convict on
horseback four miles and then take the
track w,,era be iuur..J from the bors,, - By
thi, time the flvin.- convict was q small
sn.ci, ON the i,ro,.i fields and in n moment
more had melted into the horizon and was~
yore. as If indeed he had fo,,pd that liberty
for which his so,,I n,,,a5 and Rad GONE as
the strong WINGED birds 90 when they van
ish in the blue ether
THE HOUNDS At THE START
In an bour We ,,,onn.ad our borSes The
hounds were still lo,fing about in the s,,n-
sbna Suddenly Mr. Williams s,u,r;,1
himself in his sadfile blew three m,ict short
blasts q, the cows horn that, hung, at bis
sida asif nv r,a,,;c tho hounds ,wal,ed
and CHARGED at bis s,ddle--e.ye- bov;pg
frantic .,y;ggarr- be said sap,an.in,-l1
Lie m. ,r;nd ,h.y ,er., OF no.. 10 ,ha
ground tails nm c;rcIpy lie beaolas
I.rcor the CIRCLES e,ro,y tho bon,6s s;Icn, .s
s,,actars evas and moe e.t;r, thu aor.b for
- $500, ..Th.,- ,,,;,I - 80, ,;a ,r.ors
of convict sona5s bnt viii o,.ar ON the fir.
s;,,,le tr.ct ill., fr5 ~ i Inc v-ro,o,
,r,cL ~, ,,;u s;,,,,,, -, I'm IT, III ,,x,
II ,oo vardc or co o,d netting our s;,.,..
will, tbro,y II OF ,,5 ssarcb eg.in WIN
they e-et the r;obt tr,ck wa viii b,I;oo and
star. after the hound ,ba. has II The others
will io;p hin, and tbo ,.ce ;s o,e,ea y
AtIact a rad hound corsar;ro ,il,a mad
across tn, held bal:s suddenly tpmnles over
binseN faces sbou. noes the orourd
eaperlv lifts his head aA-,-ooo-w-u and
ic or i;ta n, arrow from, n bo,.r,-;r,
.sTbet,s the track,- shouts Williams and
after tho boxv,;no bound w. a., TIE o.bo-
do,s ;oi, i, nj, Mi, a, e. ,b., aocb
hound trua y, the tr,cL in full crv and Of a
r,,,Iire, ,-,;t Av,v oey 20 ,bo i.st CO..,
I.,n.s all o,,ar,;o,, 20 r,o,-;,,a, s,..,.,,
os-,;,s. tba stv eTh,,;s ,ho ccrr9;., c;,.-
cine h,ck 10 c.mn bass;d n, ,ha DOC
,v,r3 -, os N, MI ;n.xo-aIIlo 90 60
f,,lIo,v;,,, ,b, TO-. 81 H. ..o,,-;,, o. a.
hi. owl, eh,Jo,r acra.s 10 ,r,S.i,- - ~
d,,.is ~ other .,or,, h;,,h ,o.as o,.ar forjs
,,,.o,,o,I, ho-ds - oa,.ia b.. -. e,,,,,;o.,
,hat S,n;lo, ,r;,,Jv a, H., ,,ssaa ,ha
to,,nd- ,,.n, 5oldin,, ~, - x a., a.
>,,ny;ct vvler. II hal baen lain as I;,bt ne
h;s.,, ~, th. Err, a.rt,, b,,. -, :, ,as,
tall eala amt all ,,a Vt
la It,, ,,,., ~ .,;,.x II ~;
fr;o,, -;
THE Scr.,r r,,-y r
aNoyy ,y.rI So, ~, ,,;,,d ~, s-.,,,. ss,,,
I'D $50 81, vv;I,;.,H - -.
10Th of to-. CIcs. IN hi, 80 :, s,n.J .,
co,,-i.,s T.,.,, -, 10, 90, -, .t,.
,,-,,,,,s A., 49,. -, VI, - -.
80 ,.,a,,,;n,, s;nC,,,, ,o,oh go ri, 81
t,oo. Than ~. con,.il, ,rs w. ,r.;,;nr ,ra.
r,,,, ,hro,g, main, +, b,,f c;r.l.. nth a,
Iaae, ATTY var,,s, r,di,s Tho hounds a,,e,..i |
,,,o 60, ~ b,,s,I;,,r ,,a, q o,,,,II ,,, 40,
heading Suddenly ,b, leader f,I,ared for
a, instant wifi, NO., in o;r ,Ls,, I,,rs. !
With force cry :, tho loft ran o,Ii,,,alv |
for fp,, ATTY yards with ba,j ~, yhon
ba tool mn again tho tracL az the co,y;c. an, |
lowered his head to the ground II. hal sim |
MY made n short cnt across tho sarnjeirrIc
having caupht se-,,t of the convict ON the |
busbes more than 100 feet oway I am ayyara /
that this i ircre,i;bIa n, tbose who had rover
q.ep II Lean no. exnl,in WIZ. i. is tba,
tho avinr man clad and sbod rs n hundred
others Z i q, the same fooi chained daily
70 the same chain and sleeni,e in tin, same
hunks nj NIGHTS irpnarts Il, n Welding tyyir- |
touched by his clothes so that II attracts n
hound fifty wards away Rnt IL ,,.rteirlv
does lust that.
The last test was now coming. We
were moving toward s,usd of conyicts at
work in n cotton field We had sent the
fugitive convict through the sa,ai. We
had then made then, walk in a double circle
around him They then crossed and re-
crossed his tracks. many of them wearing
exactly such shoes as he wore. One hour
later the hounds struck this point. There
was not an instant's pauS. There was no
deviation. no let no in the pace. Through
the labyrinth of tracks the hounds went, as
swallows through the air. hurrying inexora-
bly, on the one track they had chosen
TIE rxD or Try CHASE