The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-09-30
DOG DETECTIVES IN GERMANY.
A System Employed With Success in
Tracking EYildoers.

Year by year | attend trial of "po
, lice dogs in Germany and Austria
} where man hunting dogs are trained and
bred fol police purposes and where dog,
have become a branch OF the police or
gniEation. In Germany there is a So
Ciety called the Association for Fur.
thering the Breeding and Employment
OF Police Dogs, and ideas on the subject
are exchanged, all experiments with
dogs being carefully reported.
Years OF thorough and painstaking
study were devoted TO this subject be-
fore suitable breeds of dogs were OBJ
tanned and proper methods Of working
the dogs were discovered. Originally
brunswick was the headquarters of the
Germon police doggy men and when
canine assistance was required one of
the officers at once set out with a dog.
These officers and dogs often travelled
long journeys, going as far as Paris
and Constantinople on two occasions.
| The German trainers soon came TO
| the conclusion that not even the most
perfect dog would carry line three or
tour days old when he was not in q
perfect working condition. as he would
not be after a long train journey Be
fore anything else the mind" Of dog
must be quite fresh because he has TO
DO far more mental than physical work
Further, dog brought TO country in
which the conditions are different from
those Of his home cannot settle down
70 the work at once with his mind quite
free for the task. Artificial means to
revive the scent" are not always handy
and even then will fail if the dog isnot
IN perfect working condition.
Quite revolution, however. set in
when the association referred TO above
began TO distribute dogs among police
men and watchmen. These animals got
50 accustomed to their masters and
the rural conditions of their districts
that the slightest change from the nor
NAL state provoked their suspicion
while on their daily patrol. and any
amount of cases are published every
week where such well trained dogs led
their masters to places OF outrages
which up to that moment were stiIl un.
known. Suicides were found in time to
bring such poor creatures back to life,
were discovered while the
corpses were still warm. and so of
course was the scent. The criminals
were at once hunted and stopped not
many miles of, waiting for chance
to escape. Tramps hiding themselves
IN thckets could not enjoy quiet hour
md many wanted" was discovered
by the help of these dogs.
1t is an infrequent occurrence that an
outrage is not discovered within TWEEN :
" four hours after the commission OF
The crime. The next station dog" Is
1t once called. and unless he has not al
'eady stopped suspicious individual
Turing one of his patrols he will pick
Up at once the line OF the criminal /
ifter having--in case of fatal outrage
'cen brought to the corpse
Since police dogs were introduced in
there have geen compare
lively few evasions Of justice in eases
{ violence The certainty of aetec.
ion has had good result, and the
riminal statistics of that town show
hat during the last two years not
ingle murder was committed there or u
Fitnin twenty miles around this mum.
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