People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 January 1897 — Kansas to Employ Bloodhounds. [ARTICLE]

Kansas to Employ Bloodhounds.

There will be a great demand for bloodhonnds in Kansas daring the next few months. A number of communities are advertising for hounds with which to run down and captnre thieves of all olasses. A public meeting has been called by the Ottawa Anti Horse Thief association, and bloodhounds will be purchased to pursue the great number of horse thieves who have been operating in southeastern Kansas. Under the first administration of the Populist party in Kansas bloodhounds were kept at the* penitentiary, and it is claimed that this precaution prevented many attempted escapes. The one prisoner who attempted to flee was found 24 hours later in a tree six miles distant, safely guarded by the bloodhounds.—Cleveland Plain Dealer.