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were telegraphed for, and at half-past nine o'clock the same 

 evening, twenty hours after the affray, they were laid on 

 the trail with definite result. 



" At the trial, Mr. Simpson, who prosecuted for the 

 Crown, said : ' With reference to the service of the hounds, 

 this was valuable for the reason, that on the next morning, 

 as soon as it was daylight, a search was made along the line 

 of retreat (which had been run by the hounds during the 

 night), and the barrel of a gun was picked up, opposite a 

 stile in a field, over which the bloodhounds had gone.' The 

 barrel of the gun was identified, and through it, the poachers 

 were arrested, and each got twelve years' penal servitude. 

 This is interesting, as showing that the bloodhounds ran 

 the true line in the dark with a very cold scent, and it is 

 the first conviction obtained from bloodhound evidence." 



Mr. Charles Gordon, Superintendent of Police, Saharan- 

 pur, United Provinces, India, procured a tracking blood- 

 hound from me some years ago, and took it out to India. 

 He later sent me the following report on the work of the 

 dog: 



" My bloodhound was of great service in a dacoit gang 

 robbery, which was committed at a village in the Bulanshar 

 Districts, in the autumn of 1910. The dacoits had crossed 

 a line of rails on their way to the village, and had picked 

 up a quantity of stone ballast in use as missiles. The 

 villagers were reinforced, and the dacoits finally bolted, 

 carrying off with them twelve hundred rupees in loot. 

 When bolting, the dacoits threw away the balance of the 

 ballast which they had not thrown, and this gave their 

 line of retreat. The bloodhound was put on the trail 

 next morning, and was instrumental in tracking down three 

 men As a result of this, twelve more dacoits were arrested, 



