The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-08-17
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 Bioodhounds are coming to be consid- cred in the south as indispensable to tho complete equipment of a good police department Time was when such brutes were the terror of the negro slave. and the animals deep-toned. dis maj howl as tt scented the trembling dsrkey In tho thicket was to the fleeing slave more ominous of evil and more dreaded than the sharp cry of the "paterole' In pursuit. or the crack of his pistol. To tbis day one of the favor ite songs of the old time darkey as he moves about his work is:
 Run. nigser. run.
 Or the paterole will catch yo'.
 But the paterole. or. fin correct Eng lish. the patrol, has disappeared with slavery. to be replaced by the modern policeman, who. assisted by the blood hound in another and more lawful and humane capacity. now chases criminals rather than slaves.
 The most celebrated and most val uable bloodhound ir the south Is owned by Patrolman Phipps of the Chattanoo- ga police department. and Is used con stanuy by the department In chasing criminals and running them to earth. This animal has the unassuming name of Jude. Jude is only eighteen months old. but her record Is incomparable. She iS twenty-six inches high and weighs sixty-four pounds As in all bloodhounds the animals ears are her most prominent characteristics. They are twenty-four inches long. and flap about the head in a most remarkable manner. Jude has done some some TO- markable work. She will take a trail twenty-four hours old and follow 1t with ease. A few days ago the police de- Dartment employed a negro to run through the woods and fields of Hill City. suburb of Chattanooga, for the purpose of giving public exhibition and demonstration of the dogs sagaci- ty. A large crowd witnessed the run. After the negro had been given twenty
 
 trail. The negro had been instructed to take a route about mile in length, which circled and doubled so that near ly every foot of the ground could be seen by the spectators, who were standing on little knoll.
 When the negro had been given half mile start the dog was turned loose. The sagacious brute at once took the scent and away she went with her nose to the ground, yelping at every jump, closely followed by her owner and the Courier-Journal's correspondent. On went the dog until fence was reached On the other side was a broad pike At that point the dog lost the trail for a moment, make 8 quick circuit, and soon 6ound 1t, starting out again at a more. rapid pace than before. After Running about 100 yards across an old corn field she suddenly turned to the left in an entirely different direction and made for the river, still giving forth her sharp but rather musical bark Reaching the river Jude ran along the bank for g quarter of a mile or more and without another loss of the trail or moments hesitation. brought up under. large sycamore tree, where, sttttng down upon her launches, she began to bay loudly in evident satisfac- ton. Seated securely among the branches was the negro, showing his teeth in a broad grin. He was told to come down and the dog wouldn't in- lure him, but he hadn't got his foot on the ground before Jude made a dash for him; and the way he skinned back up that tree was cuation.
 After! this very successful chase the negro was instructed to run across a common over which fully 1000 persons had passed during the day going to and from shooting match. This was to show that the dog would not follow any trail except the one given her at the atart. A short time after the start the negro jumped & wide ditch and it took Jude several minutes to find the Trail on the other side, but she found it by persistent nosing, and despite the fact that the ground was covered with newly made tracks of hundreds of persons, the animal never wavered after that until she treed the negro again about a quarter of a mile away, In following this trail the dog passed several other negroes. but did not pay the slightest attention to them. ,,,. ,