Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-10-10
TRIED THE BL00DH0UNDS.
NOVEL EXPERIMENT IN THE BRIT
ISH METROPOLIS.

Sir Charles Warren Acts as Quarry and
BIoodhounds Are Put On His Track-The
Craze for Hunting the whitechapel
Fiend-Medical students in Female Dis
guise in the Chase.
LONDON, Oct ia lively scene was wit
messed in Hyde park yesterday morning,
when, in pursuance of decision recently ar
rived at, Sir Charles Warren gave his blood
hounds course or two. 1t was barely day
light and the frost lay thick on the grass
when Warren's stalwart form showed the
way to the place of trial He was followed
by few experts, one holding pair Of dogs
in leash, and a solitary reporter who defed
strict orders to keep the newspaper fellows
at distance. Warren, in a fit of enthusiasm
offered himself as quarry and started off
at good swinging trot. He was soon lost
to sight. Then different policemen crossed
his track to make the trail more difficult to
follow. The dogs were laid on and worked
surely along until arriving at the spot where
the first policeman had crossed the trail.
Here the dogs were at fault for a time, but
soon took up the scent again, the 2-year-old
dog, Burgho, which won first prize at the
New York dog show this year. leading off.
Burgho has been trained from puppy to
hunt the clean shoe and was well up to the
work, though evidently the scent did not lie
we'll Finally both dogs failed by going off
on some side scent
A new trail was started. Warren again
acted the hunted man, taking LOO yards
start. The dogs did we'll for awhile, but
finally were bafiled, owing to the number Of
people who crossed the trail Three more
courses were tried, bat only in one did the
hounds succeed in catching their man, and
then they licked and fondled him like an old
friend. Considering that the dogs were fol-
lowing the scent Of man Alone and that
the morning was extremely bad for follow
ing any trail, the result could not be called
altogether unsatisfactory. II the White
chapel murderer on the next &C.
casion smears himself with blood or
carries of any portion of the victims body,
as he did in other cases, it is believed the
| dogs will hunt him down Warren, in his
tight military dress and putting and blowing
with his eXertions, did not look very digni-
fled chief commissioner, but If he went back
to Scotland yard hot and tired it was GER
tainly with the novel feeling that he had
made a good start with a days work. He
| was very mad when the evening newspapers
came out with spicy accounts of his morn
| ing's doings, which doubtless were also read
and noted by the murderer.
| The authorities entertain a well-grounded
fear that some of the injudicious efforts now
being made to capture the Whitechapel as
| sasSln will lead to more murders than he has
committed. The district is swarming with
amateur detectives who want to gain rep.
utation by catching the murderer As they
are armed TO the teeth there is possibility
of their shooting any man who may arouse
their suspicious. Then the medical students
in large numbers are patrolling
the streets nightly in the garb OF
women. Concealed in the folds OF their
dresses each one of them carries a pistol and
a dagger. The students are particularly in
censed against the assassin, as they enter.
tain fear, since the doctors testified at the
inquest on Annie Chapman that in then
opinion he must have some knowledge Of
anatomy, that he is allied TO them profes
sionaly. In addition to these, the naples
women of the streets themselve
are armed with knives and vitroL
Although the government has de
elined TO offer a reward for the apprehen.
sion of the wretch, puhlic-spirited resident
have offered a sufficient sum to compensate
any party, who should cap ure him, for hi
trouble. The sI0o contributed by Samue
Montague, NJ. 2, for this purpose has BEEF
supplemented by $50 subscribed by the pc
lice of one of the divisions The Hebrew res
idents of the ueighborhood have offered
substantial reward for the author of til,
atrocities, and have organized themselve
into a vigilance committee.