The Washington herald., 1913-08-17
.SHERIFPS Dogs
Man TRAILERS
His Bloodhounds Have Run
Down Criminals in
-Four States.
GOT SCENT FROM BRICK
Inesndialy in Kansas Located BY Ami.
mails and Baseball Bat Finishes
Clew in Murder Case.

4 the four States Of Kansas, Missouri, Ne
braska, and Oklahoma, in differen,
places Of which they have tracked 1Ot
criminals to their hiding places.
| Recently. in Jetmore, Kans.. a thrash.
ing machine was burned. The indica.
tons were that 1t had been set afire be-
cause there had been a quarrel amons
1.-THE different owners of several machines
that were competing with each other for
business. Red Panther, one of Moore's
bloodhounds. was taken to the scene
and his nose was placed close to the
track Of horse in the soft earth near
Sthe burned machine. and he was told to
follow IL.
With his nose close to the earth, he
ran Tor nine miles, never hesitating, and
came to barn. He stopped at the door
OF the horse stable, whining, with his
nose to the crack Of the door. The sher-
IN opened II. and the dog went in. There
were several horses inside; but Red
Panther snuffed at the heels of one of
them and stopped.
The owner of the horse was asleep in
his house. When the Sheriff awakened
him he confessed that he had burned
the machine. and he was afterward sent
to prison.
shews
In Concordia, Kans., a brick was
thrown through the window OF a Jew
elry store one night. and through the
opening made by 1t a thief went in and
stole some tewelry and the money from
the cash register. With the money
taken were several dollars in pennies.
One of the bloodhounds was given the
scent from the brick the thief had held
In fa
dog picked up the scent of his footsteps
and followed them straight to the depot.
There the night agent remembered that
a strange man had bought a ticket TO a
certain town near by. and had paid for
It in pennies. The Sheriff went to that
place. and by inquiring around found a
man who had gone the day before to
Concordia and returned the next morn
ing. and when searched the stolen jew
elry was found in his pockets
An incendiary burned the granary of a
farmer living six miles north of Glasgow.
Kans. and destroyed 1000 bushels of
wheat. There was no suspicion of the
person who did il. Sheriff Moore was
sent for and he came. with a bloodhound.
which picked up the scent and followed
II six miles to a house which had three
bedrooms. The dog went to the bed in
one of those rooms and paved the covers
or
Then he took up the scent again and
followed II to a shed in Glasgow. where
two men were drinking and playing
cards. It was found that one of these
men STAYED the night before at the house
in which the bloodhound had torn off the
covers. He was charged with the crime
confessed. and was sentenced to six
years in prison.
Body Is Located.
In Glen Elder. Kans-, an old man who
lived with his son disappeared and no
trace of him could be found. Sheriff
Moore was sent for and arrived fifty
eight hours after the disappearance. but
one Of his bloodhounds took the scent
and followed 1t into the river bank five
miles away. Three days after the body
OF the old man was found lodged in a
trunk OF tree fifty yards below the spot
where the bloodhound had stopped on the
bank.
In wellington. Kans-, a man. his wife,
and their daughter. who lived in tent.
were found murdered. their heads
crushed with baseball bat. Sheriff
Moore's dogs took the scent from the
handle OF the bat and followed straight
to where the son OF the slain man and
woman worked in a car repairing shop
and he was arrested.
IN Lathrop, Mo-. a man killed some
horses and mules by putting poison In
their feed. Moore's bloodhounds trailed
him from the feed lot, through the brush
and twice across the creek to his home,
where he was taken in charge by the
His shoes were fottnd to fit
exactly the tracks in the soft mud of the
creek bottom and he was convicted.
I...- 49, h
cred in various ways by some mysterious
person. who threw a brick through the
window Of her home and turned a water
faucet SO that her cellar was flooded. A
track was found in the mud near the
window and one of Sheriff Moore's dogs
got the scent from it and followed it ten
blocks to the home of man who re-
fused to open the door to the officers.
Later it developed that he had proposed
marriage to the widow and she had re-
fused. and this angered him and prompt
ed him to worry her in various ways.
He confessed.
Found by Means of Shoe Tracks.
In Pratt, Kans. a banker was shot IN
his home by a man who stood outside
end fired through a window. There was
not the slightest clew as to who had
done II, but in the soft sod Of the lawn
outside the window were the tracks or
a mans shoes. The authorities ropsd on
the lawn and would not allow any one TO
go there and telegram was sent to
Sheriff Moore to come with his man
dogs. He sent his deputy, J.
F. swofford. and one of the dogs.
They arrived fifty-three hours after tie
but the weather was damp and
The tracks in the sod were yet fresh |
The dog took the scent at once and fol- |
lowed 1t all around the town, finally COM |
ng to the Jail and showing his nose be- |
ner tn the door Of a cell in which a man |
was confined who had been arrested a |
'ew hours earlier for brandishing knife \
Ind threatening to kill a man. His shoes |
lifted the tracks In the bankers lawn |
Ind later he confessed to the shooting.
These bloodhounds do not look one bit /
Ike those every one has seen in the
Uncle Toms Cabin play. You remem-
Der them well enough and the thrill
" fear and the goosefiesh that tingied
Ip and down your spine when. back in
he old town opera house, you saw Eliza
'ush out upon the broken ice Of 'he
liver and, stepping from one teeterins
AXE to another, pick her way across.
While from the painted wings from which
he had Just emerged came the deep
hroated bayings Of the bloodhounds On
Ter trail
And then with a burst of louder. more
Hood curdling cries the hounds emegreo
'ot on the scent. with dripping jowls and
White teeth. And the press agent Of the
how told how Il took five men to catch