Show DOG PROVES SELF BEST DETECTIVE ON POLICE FORCE catches thief sent back for evidence brings back loot in mouth ottawa ont A huge black and tan dog named dale is one of the most successful detectives in the famous mountie police force his exploits fill a full page of the annual report of the force now issued by the commissioner S sir i r james mcbrien here is a brief catalogue of dales feats he has tracked down the murderers of two mountie policemen sergeant wallace and constable harrison traced a demented man who had caused ati at explosion in a farmers house by placing a petrol soaked suit of underwear at a cellar door found lost child traced a lost child eileen simpson aged two and one half after a search party had failed to find her and most brilliant of all dale not only arrested a thief during the past year but collected evidence to prove his guilt stolen goods were found in a car on a roadside dale followed tracks leading from the car and caught the thief nothing was found on him to prove that he was guilty of the theft dale was sent back on the mans trail again and he returned with other articles that had been stolen in his mouth in beauty as well as brains dale is a credit to the force he took first prize in his class at the calgary dog show blinding arctic blizzards impassable walls of ice and rock on land and shifting treacherous ice on the sea are some of the hazards encountered in the daily life of the police constables in the force the report says hazardous patrol one patrol of many recounted was undertaken by corporal kearney a constable and an eskimo the journey was not a long one compared with many traveled by the northern police it was from craig harbour ellesmere island to dundas harbour on devon island a distance of about miles as the crow flies equipment for the trek consisted of two do dog sleds and an ice boat they found jones sound between the two islands open and they made a wide detour across rough ice reaching devon island they were confronted by sheer cliffs there was a narrow ledge along the shore fifteen miles in length which would carry them to a sloping glacier this they hoped to ascend to the inner ice cap of devon island but after creeping along the narrow ledge for five miles they found it suddenly broken off and a further advance was impossible retracing their steps they set out for cape about fifty miles to the west in the hope of finding there a suitable glacier by which to climb to the ice plateau the glaciers however were found entirely inaccessible and so t the h e journey had to be abandoned despite their heroic attempts to struggle on |