Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1905-06-20
ANIMALS AS DETECTIVES.
Dogs and Monkeys Have Been Useful
In Discovering Criminals.

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In Discovering Criminals.
The exercise officials at Posen, In
Eastern Germany, have dog trained
to detect Illicit distilleries, which
fiourished in many villages, says Pear
sons Weekly.
A mixture Of ether. forbidden by
law, is drunk by many persons instead
Of brandy. and the Posen dogs acute
sense of smell enables 1t to detect the
cottages where the volatile liquid is
being prepared. Elsass, the dog In
question, has several puppies, all Of
which are being taught their parents
profession.
Dogs are used In many countries to
detect smuggling. On the Austrian
shores Of the Adriatic a considerable
contraband trade Is being done In Ital-
ian and Levantine goods, and many
smuggling expeditions are foiled by
canine vigilance.
At intervals OF mile or so along
the coast are kennels, which have dogs
taught to bark loudly on the appear
ance Of boats at night. When the wind
Is blowing on shore II is said that these
animal custom officers can detect a
boat a mile from land, however dark
the night.
The monks Of the Great st. Bernard
had some time ago a dog which actual
lly captured murderer A traveller on
the famous pass was murdered In the
snow by an Italian NAVY. One Of the
dogs sent out for the purpose Of sue
coring snowbound wayfarers came
upon the corpse.
Instead of returning to the hospice. he
pursued the assassin several miles
along the road. and biting his leg,
famed him SO badly that he was una
BILE to proceed. The St Bernard
mounted guard over him and waited
until the villagers came up and arrest
ed the assassin, the corpse having
meantime been discovered.
The Paris correspondent Of the Lon
don newspaper recently told the story
of a monkey that acted as policeman.
A thief named Leballet entered by
night the fowl house of Mime. Houdin,
Of Clichy. ard was about to retire with
a number of lead birds, when a huge
black form sprsng at his throat
The thief shrieked with terror, and
the householder, opening her window,
saw q monkey, the property OF her
neighbor, in the act Of strangiing him.
The animal was driven off and the
thief, badly injured, conveyed to a
hospital.
The owner Of the monkey afterward
declared to an interviewer that the an
imal had been trained to fly at any
suspicious character who appeared near
the house after dark. It has once, II
appeared, attacked an overzealous po-
liceman who entered the yard to look
for burglars. ..l,
The German Volkszeitung recently
published a still more remarkable in
stance Of animal smartness,
A Dresden doctor named Werner was
stunned and bound by burglars when
asleep, his keys taken and his safe ran
sacked. AS the attack was made In
the dark he failed. Of course, to de-
scribe his assailants. The dog chain
ed In the yard had not even barked.
and the victim of the outrage was so
disguised that he proposed to give 1t
away.
A few days later two men were ar
rested on suspicion. They had been
seen In the neighborhood Of the doctors
house, but as none Of the stolen goods
were traced the case seemed weak.
The police suggested that the dog
might recognize them. The suspects
were mixed up with a crowd Of other
prisoners, and one by one the men de-
filed through a room In which the dog
waited in charge of a detective.
The first three men the dog shifted at
but otherwise ignored. When the fourth
prisoner appeared he growled iercely
and attempted to seize him by the
trousers. He was one Of the suspects.
The other was recognized In the same
way The men were retained In custo-
dy, and finally further evidence was
obtained which led to their conviction.
In 1899 a malicious visitor gave pois-
oned nuts to two monkeys In the st.
Petersburg geological gardens. The
monkeys became seriously Ill, but re-
covered. A policeman was put on duty
at the cage to prevent further out
RACES and catch the culprit in case he
renewed his attempt.
A fortnight after his appointment ne
noticed that on an innocent looking old
gentleman approaching the cage, the
two recovered monkeys grimaced
fiercely and flew at the bars.
The old man was identified as sup
posed harmless lunatic named Plaskin,
whose bette noire was Darwinism. and
the alleged relationship Of man to the
lower animals. He admitted having
noiaoned the monkeys