Show DOGS TO HELP POLICE SECRET TESTS BEING MADE BY NEW YORK OFFICIALS european hysten may be adopted an mals will de used in tra I 1 ing cr m nals through crowd ed streets new york bloodhounds are to be introduced in new york city to run down criminals experiments have been made by of bleers connected with the department here in various up state villages and cities they have been so successful that under orders from commissioner bingham a large number of trained dogs will be brought to this city and installed in the station houses to be rushed out to scenes ot crime and pua on the scent the suggestion that these man hunt ers would greatly strengthen the po lice department came from fourth deputy commissioner of police arthur woods who tor the last year has been studying the police conditions in the continental cities of europe mr woods told his chief that the dogs had proved most effective in trac ng criminals especially in the outly ing districts of paris but that a dog with an especially good nose could follow the tracks of a man through out ohp crowded streets of a city if of weather permitted when the footsteps were houis old the recent crimes against women and children when so many assaults and murders were committed decided commissioner bingham to experiment avith the hounds it has been found that a well trained dog could follow a man in the 0 en or country dis many hours after the man had pissed but an experiment was made in a thickly populated city in which a hunted man crossed and re crossed his own tracks agh hun deeds of persons were walking con scantly f mys r j four houis later the dog was un leashed the dog was young but well trained he took the scent quickly and followed the man to his hiding place in a cellar of a cabin I 1 cannot tell what city this expert meat was tried in said mr woods for we want the of the dogs to centime in secief for the present we do not want our expel indents ham 1 ered in any way I 1 will say however that up to this time the experiment have been more successful than we believed possible the plan of cc bingham is to have at lebot dogs in new york police department in station houses in the criminal districts two dogs will be kept constantly and in the other houses one dog will be sut focient dogs will be kept in every borough ready for action the moment a crime has been reported when the criminal has escaped in the outlying districts except m cases where the criminal takes a vehicle to cover his tracks or where there Is a path of which will wipe out the traces it is believed that the dogs can hunt down a man in abort time in the densely populated city where street cars jid trains afford tunit les tor a man to cover his tracks from the dogs the dogs will be used in identifying suspects for instance a suspect will be lined up with many other men just as Is the case now when an identification is to be at tempted the dog will be made to smell a garment or some article touch ed by the suspect and his training will be such that he will make straight tor the guilty man great care will be employed in teaching the dogs in the south where bloodhounds are frequently used in tracking criminals many of the dogg are ferocious when they come upon their man and in most instances the fugitive is compelled to climb a tree or seek some other refuge to keep from being torn to pieces the best trained dogs however will not attack the man the are tracking they will simply keep at his heels uttering fierce growls and deep barks and howls until he is joined by men in pursuit commissioner bingham Is expected to begin buying hounds at once an 1 then after thorough training they will be assignee to the station houses except when the dogs are tracking a criminal or are being exercised they will be kept tn leash trainers will be selected from among the men in the department whose duties will be to see that every dog is in perfect con |