The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-06-10
ANIMALS AS DETECTIVES.

Dogs and Monkeys Have Been Useful
 in Discovering Criminals.
 The excise officials at Posen, in east ern Germany, have dog trained to de- tect illicit distiIleries. which flourish in many villages, says Pearson's Weekly.
 4 mixture of ether, forbidden by law, is drunk by many persons instead of brandy, and the Posen dogs acute. sense of smell enables it to detect the cottages where the volatile liquid is be- ing prepared. Elsass, the dog in ques- tion, has several puppies, all of which are being taught their parents pro- fession.
 Dogs are used in many countries to detect smuggling. On the Austrian shores of the Adriatic considerable contraband trade is being done in Italian and Leyantine goods, and many smuggling expeditions are Sfoiled by canine vigilance -a.
 At intervals of a 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 it is said that these. animals custom officers can detect 2 boat a mile from land, however dark the night. t4
 The monks of the Great St. Bernard had some time ago dog which actually captured amurderer. A travel-. CT on the famous pass was murdered i'll the snow by an Italian navvy One of the dogs sent out for the purpose of suecoring 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. lamed him so badly that he was unable to proceed. The St. Bernard mounted guard over him and waited until the villagers came up and arrested the as- sassin, the corpse having meantime been discovered.
 The Paris correspondent of London newspaper recently told the story of a monkey that acted as policeman. A thief named Leballet entered by night the fowlhouse of Mime. Houdin of Clichy, and was about to retire with number of dead birds when huge black form sprang at his throat.
 The thief shrieked with terror, and the house holder, opening her window, saw monkey, the property of her neighbor, in the act of strangling 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 | animal had been trained to fly at any suspicious character who appeared near the house after dark. It had once | it appeared, attacked an .overzealous policeman who entered the yard to | look for burglars. .- The German Volkeszeitung 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 describe his assailants. The dog chained in the yard had not even parked, and the victim of the outrage was so disgusted that he proposed to give it away. l A few days later two men were ar rested on suspicion. They had been seen in the neighborhood of the doctor S house, but as some of the stolen goods were traced the case seemed weak.
 l The police suggested that the dog
 might recognize them. The suspects were mixed up with crowd of other prisoners, and one by one the men de-