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be quite fresh, because he has to do far more 
mental than physical work. Further, a dog 
brought to a country in which the conditions are 
different from those of his home cannot settle 
down to the work at once with his mind quite 
, i fresh for the task. Artificial means to “revive 
the scent” are not always handy, and even then 
will fail if the dog is not in perfect working 
condition. 
Quite a revolution, however, set in when the 
association referred to above began to distribute 
dogs among policemen 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 week 
where such well-trained dogs led their masters 
to places of outrages which up to that moment 
were still unknown. Suicides were found in 
time to bring such poor creatures back to life; 
murders were discovered while the corpses were 
still warm, and so, of course, was the scent. 
The criminals were at once hunted and stopped 
not many miles off, waiting for a chance to es¬ 
cape. Tramps hiding themselves in thickets 
could not enjoy a quiet hour, and many a 
“wanted” was discovered by the help of these 
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dogs. 
It is an infrequent occurrence that an outrage 
is not discovered within twenty-four hours after 
the commission of the crime. The next “station 
dog” is at once called, and unless he has not 
already stopped a suspicious individual 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. The 
Jghtham Knoll murder case was in the hands 
of the police a few hours after the perpetration 
of the murder, and if, within a further hour, a 
police-dog had been brought to the place of the 
outrage, detectives would, beyond doubt, have 
at once gathered ’such information as would 
have led them in the direction taken by the 
criminal. But to expect such a performance 
from dogs living in Scotland, probably without 
daily practice in police work, and without any 
knowledge of the country, is an utter over-esti¬ 
mation of a dog’s mental ability. 
If properly taken in hand, police dogs are, in 
my opinion, the most effective means for mini¬ 
mizing the number of these dreadful crimes—at 
any rate, the number of the undiscovered ones. 
The expense of keeping and training these dogs 
is a mere nothing compared with the cost of 
detective work. The Englishman is a born dog 
fancier—more corectly, a dog lover—and I ven¬ 
ture to think that many a policeman keeps a 
pet dog. Why not encourage them to keep use¬ 
ful animals, fit to assist them in their work? 
The establishment of a police-dog force would 
not cost much money. I believe that people 
living in the country would be only too pleased 
to contribute to a police dog fund, if only for the 
sake of their own safety. Moreover, I think 
that such an institution would give an impetus 
to dog breeders and induce them to go in for 
breeding and training police dogs, knowing that 
there will always be a demand for the stock 
produced. But the greatest care must be taken in 
the selection of breeds; useful dogs of this kind 
must be divided into game specimens which 
stop, run down and attack criminals (for which 
purpose Airedales and a wolf-cross breed is 
kept in particularly dangerous districts abroad), 
and into tracking dogs, which lead their masters 
along the line of the criminal and stop their 
work as soon as they feel that they have done 
their duty. There does not exist a better breed 
for the latter purpose than the bloodhound, and 
there are various kennels in England—I only 
mention the Chatleys of Mr. Oliphant, at 
Shrewsbury (Wilts), where a wonderfully trained 
pack of these man-hunters can be found. 
I close this letter by stating the fact that, 
since police dogs were introduced in Brunswick 
there have been comparatively few evasions of 
justice in cases of violence. The certainty of 
detection has had a good result, and the criminal 
statistics of that town show that during the last 
two years not a single murder was committed 
there or within twenty miles around this muni¬ 
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