Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-10-23

time" at Michigan City for burglary
at Seymour. Next they ran to cover
Berry Garner, notorious housebreak-
er and thief, who is now serving 20
years sentence for raids committed at
Seymour and North Vernon, Ind. La
ter "Old Jack" and others from the
Carter kennel were successful in ira
cling "Bud" Stone, the notorious con-
fessed murderer of the Wratten family
in Davis county, Indiana, who was
convicted and hanged in the state
prison at Jeffersonville in 1894. Only
short time after this they were as
successful as the leaders in the capture
of the murderous assailants Of John
Niblack, of Lawrenceville, iii. These
culprits were also convicted and sem
fenced to long prison terms, and their
capture and conviction was in great
part due to the sagacity and detective
ability of these faithful and vigilant
hounds.
At Osgood, Ind, the home of the
notorious characters who were recent
ly lynched at Versailles, the Carter
hounds, about two yeare ago, trailed
and captured several chickens thieves
among the number Lyle Levi, the
oldest and the alleged leader of the
five men who were hanged by the
Ripley county mob, and while there
"Old Lucy" was fatally poisoned at the
hotel by one of the gang while her
owner and trainer was at supper. The
next exploit was in trailing the rob-
bers of jewelry store at Campbells-
burg, Ind, four in number, who were
followed into Kentucky, captured and
convicted. In tracing the murderers
of Night Policeman Watterson, at In
dianapolis, for more than ten miles
over a trail more than 36 hours old
in run after the "night riders" at
Anderson, Ind, and in chasing thieves
and robbers at Paragon, Holton and
Decker, Ind, the Carter hounds exhi-
bited remarkable sagacity and wonder
full endurance. They have also done
good service at Dover, KY, Lyons,
Columbus, Bedford, Loogoote and
Evansville, Ind, tracing a thief and
robber to his capture As miles from
the last named place.
While the trailing of criminals is
the principal and general use to which
these active and alert tracers have
been put in this and other northern
states, it is not the only service in
which their work has been of very
great value. Dennis Connolly, 6-year-
old boy, followed band wagon out
of the city of North Vernon, Ind, and
he became lost in trying to return
home. After two days and one night
had been spent in fruitless search for
the little fellow by his parents and
their neighbors, "Old Jack" and
"Bright," another English "Redbone"
hound of the Carter breeding, were
called into service. They took the
scent from a garment that the lost
child had worn and followed his trail
for 40 miles, when, after run of an
entire night, they discovered him in a
secluded spot in dense and tangled
thicket, where he had dropped down
to rest after eating a supper of black
berries, his only food for two whole
days and nights, very weary and foot.
sore from his long and lonesome mean
dering, but otherwise well and unhurt.
When the trainers of the dogs came
up to this cover they found the little
waif fondling the sagacious brutes,
who appeared to be as happy as he
over their success in rescuing him from
death by starvation and exposure.
Of the dogs in the original Carter
kennel, "Old Jack" died year ago of
cancer, and "Old Lucy" and "Bright"
are dead from poison administered by
their enemies. Of their descendants,
several valuable and thoroughly train.
ed young dogs have been sold, and
they are now in active and useful SER
vice at Van Buren, Anderson and
Rushville, Ind; Warsaw, Ky; Van
Buren,, Ark; Petersburg, W. Va. {;
Charlestown, N. c.; Centerville, O.;
Lawrenceville and Decatur, ILL.,, and
several other large places, and every
where they are doing great work and
sustaining the record so we'll earned
by their ancestors. To William A.
Carter is due all the credit for the in
PRODUCTION of these valuable aids to
the police system, outside of the old
slave district. The originator of the
plan he has been the chief promoter
in it's development and extension. At
the start his idea was ridiculed and
the plan was derided by the many.
Now his method, like the work of his
dogs, has achieved national notoriety
and celebrity. Mr.. Norvin T. Harris,
of Hurstburne, in this county, owns
two very valuable bloodhounds and a
litter of young ones. Mr.. Harris own.
ed two superb English dogs, exhibited
at the recent bench show in Louisville.
They died within few hours of each
other few days after the show closed.
JOHN AULD FoRsYTHE.
RAILROADS.
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