The St. Johns herald., 1894-10-25
SOUTHERN BL0ODHUUNDe
The Clever Work Do1e by Them
 in Tracking Criminals.
An Instance of the Remarkable sagacity of the Animals In Following the
 Trail oF thc Fleeing Ee-

Bloodhounds are, coming to be con sidered in the south as indispensable t. the complete equipment of 2 good pc lice department. Time was wncn sue, brutes were the terror Of tne negro slave, and the animals dccp-tonel, dis nal howl as it scented the tre.nbls2g darky in the tIici1et was to the fleeing slave more ominous Of evil aal E,ore dreaded than the sharp cry O. the ''patcrolc" in pursuit, or the crack of his pistol. To this day one of the fa- yorite songs of the old-time darlsy as he moves about his work is:
 Run. nigger. run,
 Or the paterole will l-ctch yo'
 But the paterole, or, in correct Eng fish, 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 cele- brated and most valuable bloodhound in the south is owned by Patrolman Phipps, of the Chattanooga police de- partment, and is used constantly by the department in chasing criminals and running them to earth. This aDi- nal has the unassuming nar1e of Ju,e. 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 blood hounds, the animals ears are her most prominent characteristics. They are twenty-four inches long and flap about the head in a most remarkable man. nner. Jude has done some marvellous work. She will take trail twenty four hours old and follow it with ease. A few days ago the police department employed a negro to run through the woods and fields of Hill City, a suburb of Chattanooga, for the purpose of giv- ing public exhibition and demonstra- ton of the dogs sagacity. A large crowd witnessed the run. After the negro had been given twenty minutes start the dog was put on the trail. The negro had been instructed to take a route about mile in length, which circled and doubled so that nearly 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 Louisville Courier-J ournars corrcspOn- dent. On went the dog until fence was reached. On the other side was broad pike. At that point the dog lost the trail for a moment, made quick circuit and soon found it, starting out again at a more rapid pace than be- fore. After running about one hum dred yards across an old cornfield she suddenly turned to tho left in an en- tirely different direction and made 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 mile or more, and, with out another loss of the trail or a mo- ment's hesitation, brought up under a large sycamore tree, where, sitting down upon her launches, she began to bay loudly in evident satisfaction. Seated securely among the branches of the tree was the negro, showing his teeth in a broad grin. He was told to come down and the dog wouldn't ip- jure him, but he hadn't got his foot on the ground before Jude made a dash for him, and the way he shinned back up that tree was a caution.
 After this very successful chase the negro was instructed to run across common over which fully one thou sand 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 one given her at the start. A short time after the start the negro jumped a 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 rest of the ground was covered with newly made tracks of hundreds of per sons, 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 sev- eral other negroes, but did not pay the slightest attention to them.
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