The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-01-09 00:00:00

SENDING i3AD MEAT TO THE LONDON

MARKET.

At the Guildhall Police-;;1, in I—.Malon, on Month;, Mr.
Kinsley, a fanner of Longford, in liedfordshirt„ was sum-
moned for soling four quarters of leef to the London market
for sale as Imman food, the same being diseased, unsound,
unwholesome, and unlit for the food of man.
It appeared from the evidence that the defendant
had a cow which was taken ill, and his man, not liking
her appearance, tried to rouse her up, but she laid
down and would Lot get up. He then went and told
the defendant t something was wrong with her, and
the result was that he ordered the cow to be killed,
dressed, and ,ent to London for sale.
Mr. Newman, the inspector, and other officers of
Newgate-market, proved that the meat was in a wet
and flabby state, and totally unfit for human food. It
had evidently been killed while it was suffering from
disease, and near the point death. Mr. Newman
said it was lung disease, and any person conversant
with meat must have seen that it was unfit for human
food.
Mr. Aldenran Finnis fined the defendant £2O and
£sss. costs, or, in default of payment, one month's
imprisonment.
The fine and costs were paid.
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ANOTHER CASE. IMPRIsONMENT WITHOUT A FINE.
Mr. Robert Phillip Dodd, a fanner, of Great
Eyburgh, in Norfolk, occupying 700 acres of land, wa.a
summoned for sending four quarters of beef to the
London market for sale, the saline being diseased,
unsound, unwholesome, and unfit for the food of man.
The evidence, which was very lengthy, amounted to
this, that Mr. I nshre shepherd had his attention called
to a cow which was lying in a field with her head
under her. He annt some men pulled it out, and then
found she was dead. The shepherd told Mr. D.ld
about it, awl he sent for a butcher to dress it, and it
'WAS sent to the Loiebm market for sale. The flesh
was wet, stinking, and inflamed, and totally unfit for
I the food of man.
Mr. Turner, for the defence, called the shepherd,
who stated that the animal was a mikh cow, and had
been in Mr. Dorld's possession since May last. She
was in perfect health up to the morning that she died,
and the cause of her death was that she had been given
some turnips, and they had "blown" her. He had
purchased the head and tongue for half a crown, and
Inc and his family had lived on it until it VIAS gone,
and they had felt no ill effects from it. The heart was
cooked and eaten by the yards-man and his family,
and theyhail tmt been made ill by it. He also called
Charles Smith, the butcher who dressed the carcase, and
Inc stated that when he had nearly finished dressing it
the defendant came in, and he told him it was not worth
dressing,. He told the yard's.man and the coachman
that he was glad to earn what he could, lett the meat
was not tit to send up to London. Mr. Dodd did not
hear him say that. If he had bought it he could not
have sold it to some of his customers, but there were
some people who would have bought it. When the
animal was cut open it was in a very bad state, because
the tripe had been either burst from being "blown,"
or pricked with a knife, and thus the excrement from
the tripe had run into the frame of the beast and
made it stink. Except the animal was "blown"
from eating turnips, there was nothing the matter with
it. The bursting of the tripe VMS the cause of the
smell which was attached to the meat, and there warn
no getting it out of it.
Mr. Alderman Finnis said this was one of those
cases in which a fine 4sight not to be inflicted ; for
here was a man of position in the country, farming
700 acres of land, and of wealth, to whom a fine would
, Inc no punishment at all ; Inc therefore felt it to be his
I duty to Bend him to the House of Correction for one
month.

The Canadian Court If Queens Bench has refused
to grant a new trial to NVlo.l.im the murderer of D'Arcy
More. His counsel took measures for an appeal to the
Court of Errors and Appeals.