BLOODHOUNDS SAVE A WOMAN.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 13, 3 June 1914, Page 8

BLOODHOUNDS SAVE A WOMAN.

[ TOOK EESOI'IvUS TU SCENE OE MISHAP. ' Two bloodhounds In-longing to the Brecon County Vo'.j..' were successfully employed'Tccently i:i the search for Mrs. Eleanor Kvuns, an octogenarian, wlio was missed from her sister's hou.se at Vennyfach, near Brecon. Having failed to find tire old lady, her relatives informed the police at Brecon, and soon after 10 o'clock a search with bloodhounds was organised. Two police officers took two hounds to the old woman's cottage. They were put on the scent, and at once pulled the officers through the house, into tho garden, and out into the road. After ! going a long distance on the road, they branched oil' to a pasture land. When they readied some well-known rocks overlooking the River Usk, they stopped and bayed. There is a 10ft. drop to the water here, and, 'thinking the hounds were on the wrong tra«k, the officer took them back to the cottage. Again the hounds showed a desire to get on the road. They followed exactly the same track as before, and soon were again standing on the rocks, bay. ing loudly. The old woman was found, exhausted and unconscious, at the foot of the rocks. Her feet were in tlie water. A doctor said that had she been there another hour she would have died. The two hounds are named Justice and Wisom, and have been trained since they wore two months old by Policeconstable Pearce.