"Feeling the hounds were right so far I cast them round about in hopes of their picking up the trail again. After working persistently for a little time one of them, 'Solferino,' opened to a line beyond the wood, and went off at a steady rate followed by the other hound, 'Waterloo,' who also found the line himself. They held to this for a while until checked by a main road. [Illustration: MAJOR RICHARDSON'S MAN-TRACKER "PATHAN" _By kind permission of Major Richardson_] "The murderer had evidently walked along the road some distance, until, perhaps, scared by a pedestrian or vehicle, and he then evidently took to the fields again. "Although checked by the road, where the trail became obliterated, the hounds, nothing daunted, kept steadily onwards, casting all the time on each side, until they found it again in the fields. By steadily working in this manner they led us for four miles, partly across country, and partly on the road, to a populous town, and to the vicinity of a railway station. Here the trail was completely obliterated, and it was evident that by this time the murderer had got clear away, probably by train, and was not hiding in the neighbourhood. "The chief constable testified to the excellent work of the hounds on this occasion, and there is not the slightest doubt, that had this town been supplied with a bloodhound which could have been put on the trail immediately on the discovery of the murder, the murderer would have been quite easily run to earth." In Moscow a bloodhound is systematically used by the police to discover stolen property, and some of his "finds" have been recorded in all the European papers. In the early part of March of last year this police dog, "Tref," recovered a number of bank-notes and a quantity of silver plate that had been taken from the house of a Moscow gentleman. "Tref," having been put upon the scent, followed the trail through several streets until he came to a night-shelter. Here he made for a coat that belonged to a house-painter, and in the pockets of this were found the missing notes. He then left the shelter and followed the trail to the shop of a dealer in old silver, and here the stolen plate was discovered. In addition to their occasional use as detectives, dogs are now being systematically employed as scouts to accompany the police on their rounds and to aid in the capture of evil-doers. The Paris dogs, which are specially trained for the police by Mademoiselle Arlette Clary, are cross-bred hounds described as "wolf-shepherd hounds," and "brindled mastiff bulls." They are powerful beasts weighing upwards of twelve stone, and can easily overthrow and master a man.