Would the bloodhounds have saved Warren's career ?

[Nemo]

I believe at the time that no dog existed who had been trained to follow a "clean shoe" over paved roads. The clean shoe referred to the scent of a man in boots or shoes with no blood on them.

Edwin Brough, bloodhound trainer, professed that such a dog could be trained in the future

All contemporary trials were done over grass/leaves etc in which the dogs were successful

I have seen modern bloodhounds track over concrete so I think it would have been a good option if such a dog was available

Rather than the amount of people crossing the track, I think the amount of blood in the area due to the presence of slaughter houses and the like was the main consideration

The popular bloodhound story at the time would probably have been regarding the "Lincoln bloodhound" which was used by police and parishioners to track sheep stealers. It successfully tracked the sheep carcasses on a number of occasions and was talked about widely in the press prior to 1888.

[Mitch Rowe]

The main reason the bloodhounds werent considered reliable is that police thought there were just too many people around for the dogs to be able to discern between them. So they thought the dogs would start out OK but lose the trail quickly.

We now know that is very very far from the truth. However we know this now because training is far better and more specialized. So its pretty much unpredictable and probably not likely the dogs could have helped.

A possible reason why the door to 13 millers was smashed down could have been because no one wanted to touch the door handles? Seems to me like a good place to get a scent. maybe the dogs trainer had mentioned something like that?

George Sims claimed he had been tracked and identified by the dogs. I think he was probably fibbing though.

[halomanuk]

I should have said that if the bloodhounds were used earlier,maybe at the 'double event' maybe things would have been different.

[Nemo]

I don't think it would have saved his career - he had already resigned for different reasons

It would have been interesting to see where any trail led on the day - but the bloodhounds were unavailable

Either the Ripper was not worried about the use of the hounds, or he knew they were unavailable/useless in Whitechapel (according to Mr Brough)

[halomanuk]

Does anyone here think that,had the bloodhounds,Barnaby and Burgho, been used after the trials (where Sir Charles Warren himself was a 'target-man') to track the ripper,they may have saved his police career ?

Or were things too far gone at that stage.It would have been interesting to see how the dogs would have been at 13 Millers Court,where they may just have picked up a scent or some clue.