Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1913-09-27
FAVOR POLICE DOGS
Results in KaiSer'S Army At
tracts Many Nations.
8Ioodhounds Are Too Noisy-German
ShePerd Canine Do Not Bay
Thereby Possessing an Add
tionai Virtue fer the Work.


New York-There appears TO De a
general awakening to the value OF
police dogs all over the world With
out a doubt the attention now being
given 10 DOGS as factors i'm The Ger
man army and the police departments
OF that country has made the other
nations OF Europe sit up and take
notice The present enthusiasm
among the members OF the German
Shepherd Dog club of America is sim
ply sign of what is about to happen
in connection with police dogs in New
York and other cities. where. unior
tunately. crime is rampant and muir
der of every day occurrence.
1t is true that several dogs have
been kept in Brooklyn by the police
but they have been used only in half
hearted way. The dogs have had too
many masters; they have been treated
very much like the firemen's dogs;
they have been looked upon more as
pets than four legged policemen. ever
alert and standing Tor no nonsense
from any one
In no country In the world has the
bloodhound been used more for track
ing criminals than in America. The
old sleuth hound of remote days has
been kept right up to his work. and as
consequence the American blood
hound is very much keener in his pur-
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blood and breeding in Europe. The
bloodhound here is often made saw
aGe. so that he shall become a keener
hunter of men. 1t is a practice in
some OF the penitentiaries in the south
to get inmates of the prison to kick
palings OF the kennels in which the
bloodhounds are kept The disturbed
dogs thus are made savage, and when
man is reported missing or is seen
getting away the bloodhOunds hunt
his trail with all the grimness of a
terrier after a rat
In Europe a bloodhound is not sup
posed to mouth or worry his human
quarry. There is nol so much senti-
ment in this part of the world, but
as the blOCdhOunds generally are
hunted on a leash they can be re-
strained from harmiag the runaway
who willingly surrenders when the
animals are close upon him. Blood
hounds make a great deal of noise
when they are running on a trail.
They are more suitable for work in
-,
near to where there are living many
persons, who will naturally rush out
when they hear the baying and thus
spoil the progress of the man hunt.
German shepherd dogs are silent Oh
the line, and for that simple reason
they are preferred for work in a city
or its suburbs. The wolflike dog is
also The more active and he can clear
palings and other obstacles with a
great deal more ease than can the
bloodhound.
1t perhaps is not known generally
that some of the railroad companies
keep up a regular staff of hounds;
they have been found of the utmost
assistance in bringing desperadoes to
justice Manning Cleveland, wealthy
Poughkeepsie man, long has been re-
nowned for the excellent work accom-
pIished by his hounds. He is a deputy
sheriff and is ever ready to assist the
authorities anywhere. His hound,
Moses has asserted il some wonderful
runs and more than one miscreant has
been sent to the electric chair through
the seeming out powers of other
Cleveland animals. The terror that a
man is possessed of after he has been
hunted by bloodhounds is we'll known
Not so long ago the handler of the
Cleveland dogs visited the prison
where lay a condemned mantle muir
derer ran down by the aforesaid
Moses and a black and tan American
bloodhound, the latter half pure blood
hound and half American foXhOund.
DO you know who this is?' asked
the warden of the prisoner, as he
pointed to the Poughkeepsie man.
NO" came the reply.
He is the man with the dogs"
continued the warden, and forthwith
the unhappy wretch rushed to the off
corner of his cell and actually tried
to dig himself out with his hands The
terror that a red handed criminal has
for the powers of dog is well known.