Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-23


hounds are not ferociOus. When they;
find the criminal, they jump on him.
try to play, or back atoay and bark.
breeding OF bloodhounds, beginning with
thoroughbred stock.
Today he has something of national reputa-
ton as a breeder and authority on blood
hounds, their peculiarities and their habits.
Not all Of the hounds he has raised have been
used in detective work; many of them have
been sold for pets and some of his dogs have
won blue ribbons in dog shows. Mullikin has
also supplied dogs to scientists engaged in the
study of the extraordinarily keen sense of smell
possessed by the thoroughbred bloodhound His
dogs are good ones.
THE full-blooded bloodhound" says Mullikin.
sis the only one that Is dependable on the trail.
Then, too, croSs-breeds are inclined to be ugly,
even vicious, at times while the true olGod~
hound Is gentle and socable. He never ats
tacks his quarry, but simply leads TO it, stick
ing to the trail until he has come to the end
of it,
places" relates the man who Is not inclined
to boast of his notable record as catcher Of
criminals, "but any place the dogs go, I'll go.
I've done more less work in the Kentucky
mountains III feud trials and have been shot
three times.
1.-The first time was when had come back
to the scene of the crime to testify at a trial:
another time ] was waylaid and shot while
returning home from a man hunt, and the other
time was when / was arresting man and his
revolver went off while we were scuffling.
When Ed Callahan, the supposed feud leader
of Bloody Breathitt County fame. was shot and
thought to be dying. went with my dogs to
the scene of the crime in jackson, KY.
when we got to the house, some officers
there said there was no use in trying to go
in, as it would take hundred men to storm
and take the place But the dogs went up to
the house, and went with them.
only one man was in there-Govan Smith,
a former town marshal who had sometimes
worked with me on cases. He was sitting in
the middle Of the room with a Winchester
across his knees.
There was no move to shoot, so shook
hands with him and talked about the attempted
killing of Callahan. He told me that Tish
Smith and Levi Johnston had been there, but
had gone to their home in Buckthorn
THE dogs and went out to the stable and
saw the tracks where two mules had been rid
den away and followed the trail to Buckhoril.
When got there found Smith and john
ston in q house where some 80 other men
were gathered, armed with revolvers and
rifles. The porch. or lean-to as they call it in
those parts, had been hung with bed quilts
Callahan got better, but was later shot and
killed. Three men were convicted Of the MUIR
der and were given life sentences, but were
Later pardoned or paroled. If remember right.
There was another case that worked ON.
IN Knox County. Mrs. Broughton, the wife
Of miner, had been found with her threat
cut. Her husband had been away from home
coed part Of the time working in the mines,
and she was alone In the house with colored
woman servant.
The colored woman said that white man
had come TO the house and had threatened to
XIII har unless she went away and left him
and the miners wife alone. So she said, she
went away and stayed all night, returning In
the morning to find her mistress dead body
the dogs picked up the trail at the scene
of the murder and soon located the man who
had done the job. He was not a white man,
but Negro. We found q blood-stainea
wcman's handkerchief with $40 in 1t on his
person. He was convicted and hanged in
Barboursville."
In the days before prohibition and since Mul-
hkin and his hounds made many trips deep into
the mountains to add many moonshiner to
their lengthy roll Of lawbreakers. =