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Show PROTECTED BY H'S DOGS. Bow a Famous Moonshiner So Long Evaded Capture by Revenue Officers. The most noted mountaineer in West Virginia and peihups ia Kentucky and North Carolina, Jim Day, has at last been captured. The government officers offi-cers have been trying to arrest Day for over 15 years, but failed on every occasion. occa-sion. Day, who is a tall, muscular, shrewd looking fellow, has been running run-ning illicit stills for over 15 years. During Dur-ing this time he had sometimes as many as a dozen stills running at one time. The stills were located in the depths of the primitive forests or in caves in the mountain sides a long distance from roadways and trails. The stills are always al-ways located near some prominent height or at a point from which a guard or spy, constantly on the alert, could overlook all approaches and advise his companions of the vicinity of suspicious suspi-cious looking strangers. Time and again revenue officers have attempted to waylay way-lay and ambush Day. They found roads and trails over which it was known he would be forced to travel, and they then placed squads in ambush, but although al-though Day had been seen cr traced along the road he alwaynlipped through their fingers without a scratch. At last the secret of his success in evading the officers became known. Day had a number of thoroughbred dogs which he had trained to scent ont revenue rev-enue officers or strangers and to notify him of their presence long before they could come in sight. When traveling over the routes or trails leading to and from any of his stills, two of Day's dogs always trotted along in front several sev-eral hundred yards, taking opposite sides of the road. Two would fall back in the rear, and one would advance like a scout on each side. In case of an ambuscade the dogs in front would scent the presence of the deputy marshals before they got within a hundred yards of them. They would return quickly lo 0ilheprJes-. ence of the enemyTiay would then take to the woods to the right or left, with a dog in advance, and pass around an ambuscade without being seen. In case pursuers should come up behind, Day's dogs, which bad been trailing along, would quickly be?r or scent them and then would hurry forward to their master, who, knowing by their actions how close the enemy was, could easily evade them. St. Louis Republic. |