Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-11-17
eLooDHouNps IN THE SOUTH.
Marvellous Work Done by Dogs In Pursuit.
of Criminals.

B~loodhounds are coming to be con.
sidered In the south as indispensable to
the complete equipment of u good police
department. Time was when such
brutes were the terror of the negro slave,
and the animals deep-toned, dismal
howl as it scented the trembling darky
in the thicket was to the fleeing slave
more ominous of evil and more dreaded
than the sharp cry Of the "p~aterole" in
pursuit or the crack of his pistol. To
this day one of the favorite n of the
oId-time darby as he moves about hi,
work is:
Run, niger, run,
Or the patsrole will ketch yo'.
But the paterole. or, in correct English,
the patrol, has disappeared with slavery.
to be replaced by the modern policeman.
who, assisted by the bloodhound in an-
other and more lawful aud humane
capacity, now chases criminals rather
than slaves.
The most celebrated and the most
valuable bloodhound In the south Is
owned by Patrolman Phipps of the Chat
tanooga police department and is used
constantly by the department in chas.
ing criminals and running them to earth.
This animal has the u%nassuming name
OF Jude. Jude is only Is months Old,
but her record is Incompatible. 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, aud flap about the head in
a most remarkable manner. Jude has
done some marvellous work. She will
take a trail twenty-four hours old and
follow 1T with ease. A few days ago the
police department employed a negro to
run through the woods and fields of Hill
City, 4 suburb of Chattanooga, for the
purpose OF giving a pubic exhibition OF
and demonstration OF the dogs sagacity.
The negro had been instructed to take a
route about a mile in Angth. which
circled and doubled so that nearly every
foot Of the ground could be seen by the
spectators, who were standing Oh a lit
tie knoll, says the Louisville Courier.
Journal
When the negro had been given hall
a mile start the dog was turned loose.
The sagacious dog at once took the
scent and away she went with her nose
to the ground, yelping at every Simp,
closely followed by her owner and the
correspondent. On went the dog until
a fence was reached. On the other side
was a broad pike. At that point the
dog lost the trail for a moment, made a
quick circuit, and soon found il. starting
out again at a more rapid pace than be.
fore. After running about a hundred
yards across an old cornfield she sudden
ly turned to the left in an entirely diff
ferent direction and make for the river,
still giving forth her sharp but rather
musical bark. Reaching the river Jude
ran along It's bank for a quarter of a
milo or more, and, without another loss
OF the trail or "A moments hesitation.
brought up under q large sycamore tree,
where. sitting down upon her launches,
faction. Seated securely among tkeH
branches of the tree was the negro,
showing his teeth in a broad grin. He
was told TO come down aud the dog
wouldn't injure him, but he hadn't got
his foot on the ground before Jude made
C dash for him, aud the way he skinned
back up that tree was a caution.
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 a shooting match. This was to
show that the dog would not follow any
trail except the n given her at the
start. A short time after the start the
negro jumped a wide ditch and il took
Jude several minutes to find the trail on
the other side, but she found it by per-
sistent nosing and despite the fact that
the rest Of tue ground was covered with
newly made tracks of hundreds of per-
sons; the animal never wayered after
that until she freed the negro again
about a quarter OF a mic away. In fol-
lowing this trail the dog passed several
other negroes, but did not pay the
slightest attention to them.