The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1894-02-17
E:sz--,N BLOODHOUND TEBT8D.
Following Z Trail where Hundreds Of
Persons Had Been Walking.

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The bloodhound "Jude, that figured y
.eop,puciously in the late Ingersol! muir
der. tracking the murderer, to the spo
where Harris, alias Jones, was captured
bv Rhode Buol, was given run yesterday
in Hill City. Many Ilxve doubted the sa
aacity and reliability of the dog in fol
lowing man, but if these doubters had
been on the Tennessee River bridge yes
terday afternoon they would have gone
away convinced that the dog will not only
follow the trail Of man, but also that Il
will do it with unerring accuracy.
The Police Department employed
negro yesterday to run through the fields
and hol!ows of Hill City. After the negro
had been given start of twenty minutes
the dog, which had been kept on the
bridge 80 that it could not see the Negro
IA y. ran, was brought down and put
upon the trail.
The negro had been instructed to choose
a route about three quarters of mile in
LENGTH. and it circIed aud doubled so that
every foot of it could be plainly seen from
the bridge upon which Chief Hill. Presi
dent Heiuy, of the Police Commission
and fully 100 spectators were drawn t.
the spot.
When the negro had been given fully
half mile the start Of the dog the animal
was turned loose near the spot from winch
he started. The sagacious brute at once
picked up the scent and away she went
yelling at every jump, and closely toll
lowed by her owner, Patrolman Phipps
and Times reporter. On went the DOG
with nose to the ground, until fence
was reached; on the other side was
broad pike; here the canine for re"
moments lost the trail, but taking cir
cult soon came upon it, and then over an
other fence and across an old corn neid
she went. After running several hundred
wards beyond she suddenly turned north
and made for the river, still giving forth
her musical bark. When the river was
reached the brute again lost the trail for
q moment, but soon found it again and
went at full run up the bank close to the
water until it passed under the bridge
and several hundred yards beyond.
There it came to halt and began to
again circle, hunting for the trail that had
been lost. However, within two minutes
the dog ran up to large sycamore tree,
and, after smelling at the trunk, gave
peculiar bark that indicated that the game
had been freed. Sure enough, there sat
the negro, secure among the bou2hs,
about 20 feet from the ground. He was
told to come down and the dog would
not bother him; however, when he came
near the earth the dog made savage
dash at him, and the way that negro got
back up in that tree was remarkable. At
ter that he would not consent to come
down until the brute had been securely
tied.
After this very successful chase the
negro was instructed to run across a COM
mon that over 1000 people had passed
through during the day, going to and
coming from a shooting match. This
was done to show that the dog would not
follow any trail except the one she had
taken in the start. A short time after
the start the negro jumped very wide
ditch which delayed the chase very much.
However, after fully ten minutes persist
ent nosing, the animal again found the
scent, and despite the fact that the COM
mon was covered with the newly made
footprints Of others, followed the negro
until she found him in tree about 1000
yards from the starting point. The last
hunt was very slow, but the dog showed
plainly that she was reliable to aremark-
able degree. In following one trail dur
ing the chase the dog passed several
negroes, but did no pay the slightest at
tention to them, but it took a stron. arm
to keep her of Of the negro she had been
trailing. - Chattanooga Times.