Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-01-14
TRAINED TO HUNT MEN.

TRAINED TO HUNT MEN.
Points on the Education of Blood
hounds to Track Criminals.
The first attempt to track crimina
in the city Of Washington with blood
hounds was made recently, when De
tective Trumbo set his two hounds fl
pursuit Of the murderer Of Mrs. Kate
Jordan in Anacostia, few hours aftel
the crime. In Washington 1t has beer
thought that bloodhounds would be o.
little service, and 1t is found that they
can pick up the scent on asphalt pave
ment only with the greatest difficulty
Conditions in the Anacostia case, how
ever, were different. The hunt for tht
murderer was going on with promise
Of swift success until fall Of snow
covered the trail 80 effectively as tt
make it impossible after the scent hac
been lost on one side Of the river, t.
pick 1t up on the other.
Detective Trumbo's bloodhounds are
ugly animals; but their looks belle
their intelligence, as we'll as their aris.
tocratic lineage, for which their own.
er prizes them. The dogs now grown
to be large, were puppies that he slio
into his overcoat pockets when he
bought them down in Tennessee. Now
they are nine months old and have
graduated from a course Of education
in Washington. The first thing they
learned was to respond to their names
Raymond and Mame-and then to q
peculiar whistle that the detective
composed for the purpose. Afterwaro
came a course Of kindergarten work In
the ordinary dog play Of locating
things by scent.
The dogs, after sport with a ball
were taught to hunt for it. Name from
the start seemed to have the keener
olfactory sense, while her companion
was inclined to become tired after the
least work. After the hounds had been
educated to locate objects with which
they were familiar they were allowed
to smell Of an unfamiliar object and
then told to hunt it. They became pro-
ficient in returning the objects Of their
quest to their master. To teach them
this took weeks Of patient toll. II
completed their grammar school course
Finally they were taken out in the
country for college education. They
were held while Detective Trumbo
would take run off out Of sight. IT
was easy for them to follow one with
whom they were 80 familiar as their
master, especially as the scent was IN
the open air. Their final lessons came
in their being allowed to follow colored
men hired to travel across the country
When the dogs were permitted to
follow human beings they seemed to be
in their element. They have been very
accurate in following the exact path
taken by men. On one trial the trail
led along creek bounded on both sides
by steep banks. The man pursued was
fully an hour ahead Of the dogs and
their master.
Suddenly, as the dogs were following
the scent, they left the creek and star
ted up the bank, to the CONSERVATION
of Detective Trumbo, who had ordered
the fugitive" to follow the creek. The
hounds went to the summit Of a BLUM,
but returned to the creek again. When
the man was found Detective Trumbo
asked him why he went up the BLUM.
At first he denied it; but, after think
ing, said, "Oh, yes: went up there to
tie my shoe.'
Christmas eve, when the dogs were
taken to the scene Of the Anacostia
murder the work Of tracking men was
not new to them. They obtained
scent of the criminal from a chair on
which he had been seated, and followed
his tracks directly to the river.
The ancestors of the dogs are said to
be the coldest-nosed inbred breed IN
the United States. Last July their
mother, owned by J. w. Mccall, OF
Knoxville, Tenn, earned $1,000 reward
by running down a criminal eighty
three miles away and on track tWen-
ty-eight hours old. The sire of the
dogs Is also we'll trained and the pair
have been valuable in locating several
criminals in the south.-Washingt
Post.
THE BLACK BoTTLE.-Sir Wilfrid
Lawson, the great temperance advo-
cate, once met laborer walking along