The Sun.
London, England, 1855-10-05 00:00:00

MANSION-HOUSE.

THE JEWISH MODE OF SLAUGHTERING CATTLE.—
This was the adjourned day appointed for the hearing
of a summons obtained by Mr. Forster, secretary to the
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals,
against Yenikoff Cohen and Thomas Reynolds, for cru-
elty to a bullock.
The question involved was one of considerable im-
portance to the members of the Jewish persuasion, the
cruelty complained of being the mode by which they
slaughter their cattle for food, and which the Society
is prepared to show, by the highest medical evidence,
inflicts cruelty on the animals.
The hearing of the complaint on the former occasion
was adjourned on the application of Mr. S. Samuels, t•
enable him and the Jewish authorities to consider the
question involved, and, if consistent with their religious
tenets, to substitute some other mode of slaughtering
the animals.

To-day a further adjournment was applied for on the
ground that the sth of October was a Jewish festival,
on winch occasion the parties concerned would be en-
gaged in their religious duties, and it was suggested the
complaint should be entered into on Monday next.

Sir Peter Laurie asked if this was the first time the
question had been broached. It was a very important
question, and he had no recollection of such a case coming
before him during his long experience.
Mr. Forster said it was. The society considered they
could suggest a more humane mode than that now
adopted by the Jews, without interfering with their reli-
gious sights and feelings. By the Christian mode of
slaughtering cattle, a bullock took two or three
minutes in dying ; whereas, by the Jewish mode, it
occupied 12 or 13 minutes in dying. It was unnecessary
an animal should be kept so long dying.
The Clerk, who attended for Mr. Samuels, objected
to Mr. Forster then entering on the case, as he was not
in a position to reply to him.

Sir Peter Laurie said he thought it would be advan-
tageous to Mr. Sampson Samuels to know what the real
charge was.

Mr. Forster then described the Christian and Jewish
modes of slaughtering cattle. By the latter mode the
legs of the animal are hobbled, and it is then thrown
on its side. A hollow ring is placed in its mouth,
into which is put an iron bar, and the head of the animal
is held down in a certain posture, when the religious
officer comes with a sharp knife, shaves off a portion of
the hair from the throat, and with one cut severs the
jugular vein. The Jews considered that by so doing the
bullock died quickly, but it was a mistake. The
vein, after the first rush of blood, collapsed, and
the blood then flowed slowly, causing the animal to
be 12 or 13 minutes in• dying. The Jewish official, if
he failed in the first cut to inflict death, was not allowed
to repeat it—the animal, in consequence, being unfit
for food, and it not unfrequently happened that the
butcher behind the back of the religious officer cut a
piece off one of the veins to cause the blood to
flow more freely and cause the animal to die.
After some other observations between Sir Peter
Laurie, Mr. Forster, Mr. Samuels' clerk, and the magis-
trates' clerk, the hearing was adjourned till the 16th.

GUILDHALL.

CUTTING AND WOUNDING. Edmund Wheeler, re-
manded charged with cutting and wounding Walter
Coulson, with whom he lived at 9, Printing-house-lane,
was placed at the bar for final examination.
The prisoner, who is an ex-policeman, was defended
by Mr. Lewis.

The case was reported in The Sun on Monday, when
it first came before Alderman Humphrey. To-day the
additional evidence of the surgeon was taken, which
showed that the prosecutor was suffering from a clean
cut wound on the arm, five inches in length, two inches
of which exposed the muscular structure ; and also one
of three inches in length. On the leg he found two
wounds, one four inches, the other three inches in length.
The wounds were not dangerous. _

Alderman Hunter committed the prisoner for trial for
unlawfully wounding the complainant.