Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-04-02
DOG DETECTIVES IN GERMANY.
system Employed Their" with Il
cess il, Tracking EviIdOers.

cess ia Tracking EviIhOers.
Year by year l attend trials of "po-
lice dogs" in Germany and Austria,
where mnn-hunting dogs are trained
and bred for police purposes and where
dogs have become Il branch OF The police
organization. says Il writer in the Lon
don Telegraph. In Germany there is
a society called the Association for IL
thcring tn" Breeding II Employment
of Police Dogs. and ideas on the sub
jcct are exchanged. all experiments
with dogs being carefully reported.
Years Of thorough and painstaking
study were devoted to his 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
German police doggy men and when
canine assistance was required n OF
the officers ut once set out with a dog.
These officers and dogs often travelled
long Journeys. going as far as Paris
and Constantinoplc OF two occasions.
The German trainers soon came to
the conclusion that not even the most
perfect dog would carry il line three
or four days old when he was not in
perfect working condition. rs he would
not be after Il long train journey. Be
fore anything else he. mind of a dog
must be quite fresh because he has to
do far more mental than physical work.
Further. Il dog brought to Il country in
which the conditions are different from
those Of his home cannot settle down
to the work 1T once with his mind quite
fresh for the task. Artificial means to
revive the scent are not always
handy. and even then will fail If She
dog is not in perfect working condition.
Quite Il revolution. however, set in
when the association referred to above
began to distribute dogs among police
mel and watchmen. These animals got
so accustomed to their masters and the
rural conditions Of their districts that
the slightest change from the normal
state provoked their suspicion while on
their daily patrol. and any amount Of
cases are published every eek where
such well trained dogs led their mas
ters to places of outrages which up to
that moment We're still unknown. Sui
cides were found in time to bring ouch
poor creatures back to life. murderers
were discovered while the corpses were
still warm. and so of curse was the
scent. The criminals We're at once
hunted and stopped not many miles OF,
waiting for n chance to escape. Tramps
hiding themselves in thickets could not
enjoy Il quiet hour. and many Il want
ed" was discovered by the help Of these
dogs.
1t is an infrequent occurrence that
an outrage is not discovered within
twenty-four hours after the commits
sion of the crime. The neNt station
dog is at once called and unless he
has not already stopped 81 suspicious in.
dividual during one of his patrols he
will pick up at once the line of the
criminal after having-in case of fatal
outrage-been brought to the corpse.
Since police dogs We're introduced In
Brunswick there have been compara'
lively few esasse.as OF justice il eases
of violence. The certainty of detec'
tion has had Il good result and the
criminal statistics of that town show
that during the last two years not d
single murder was committed there OF
within twenty miles around this mu
nicipality.