Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 191, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1915 — BLOODHOUND HAD A KEEN NOSE [ARTICLE]

BLOODHOUND HAD A KEEN NOSE

Successfully Trails Clothes Thief on "Old Scent From a Hanger. Keokuk, lowa. —Called to the trail only when it was between eight and ten hours old, and getting his scent from a coat hanger, a bloodhound established a record here when it trailed, without hesitancy, a man who had robbed a local clothes cleaning concern to the railroad station. Before making for the station, almost dragging the heavy-weight owner at the other end of the line, the animal trotted briskly through alleys and into a restaurant where the thief had stopped for lunch after the robbery. The stolen clothing was located in a hotel at Fort Madison, but the man who got away with them had fled from there and was not caught