The Sun.
London, England, 1857-08-27 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENGS.-Aug. 26.

MANSION-HOUSE.- -.-FRATTD. —Mario tto Knox
Cross, who hid been reman.led upon the charge of
having forged a receipt for the payment of 5/. 7s. 4d.,
with intent to defraud the East India Company,
was again brought before the Lord Mayor for fur-
ther examination.
1. he depositions taken at the former examination
were read over. They were to the effect that the
defendant became entitled to a pension in 1842, as
the widow of Robert Trotter Knox, a brevet cap-
tain in the service of the East India Company, that
she was only entitled to the receipt of such pension
during her continuity of widowhood ; that in Octo-
and that from that date she had, as
b?r, 1855, she was married at Antwerp to a Mr.
House, making the usual declaration of
quarterly at the
R
e
tOhsaebirote rtlnonf
doCrraeo, serceived her pension
widowhood, and signing her name to the receipt
" Charlotte Knox
Kanndoxo.t,her official documents,

The defendant, who said she should reserve her
defence, was then fully committed for trial.
DISEASED MEAT.—Mr. Ilminas Hough and Mr.
William Innocent, the former a butcher, and the
latter a farmer residing at Whatton, in Notting-
NithNielYgl unlawfully sent 27
niarket for sale, the
hamshire, appeared to answer to a summons which
chargedla,a re themcasse s I
to '
said carcasses being unfit for human food.
Mr. Stuchbury, from. the office of the City
Mayor ; and Mr. Lewis,
lf)oyrtthlereLcloerfdendants.
soli-
citor, attended in support of tho prosecution, which
was tai sptpiter;iLtreedd
jundr. J. Butram, station-roaster at Aslacton, in
Nottinghamshire, sail—On the evening of Friday,
the 14th inst., Mr. Hough inquired of me if I had
got a box waggon to convey some caresses of meat
to LoAon. 1 told him I had. On the following
morning four packages of meat were brought to the
station. The defendant Hough was there. I saw
t
oli addressese(beputhte
his same.
name
Hough
j on
paid the carriage of them,
and
consignment note. I asked
him if he had bought the careassez., and he said be
had not, but was merely sending them for Mr.
Innocent. The packages were sent to Lln,lon by
them,otuhnd believe those produced
geh
a
the 50 minutes past 11 train, and shou'd have ar-
tived in London at a quarter past two on Monday
morning.
Cross-examined by Mr. Lewis--The meat was
was brought abaut half-past Bon the Saturday
morning. We have a train for London at three
minutes past 9 iu the morning, but that train was
nearly threw hours late that morning in consequence
of the floods. The defendants are respectable per-
sons.

J. Bates, a carman in the service of the Great
Northern Railway, prL.vcd delivering the packages
to Mr. BoLkor, a meat salesman in Newgate-mur-
ktt, between three and four o'clock in the morning
of the 17th in-t. Tile packages smelt very bad.

Mr. T. thnsor—l am a meat salesman in New-
gata-Market. I was at my premises at 4 o'clock
on the morning of the 17th inst., and found four
packages of meat lying in the street next our pre-
mises addressed to us. The smell that arose from
them was very offensive. Two of the c ArcAses that
*had slipped out of oce of the packages were in a
very bad condition. They were lambs dressed as car-
cases usually are for market. I did not know from
whom they came. I directed them to be unpacked
in my presence, The cAreases were all in the same
condition. I had the whole placed in the cellar iu
order that the inspector of meat might see, them.
They were perfectly unfit for human foxi. Mr.
Pocklington, the inspector, came, and oa seeing
them coadetnned them. The next clay I received
from my clerk the card produced, with the words,
" From Thomas Hougb,' written upon it. I have
been in the trade upwards of 40 years, and have
had much experience in it. The carcases were in
an aim st putrid state from long packing. Meat
so packed, had it been kilted in the usual manner,
might have been bad on the Monday morning.
Some meat that I received from oth-r parties on
that morning was deteriorated in value 2d. and 3d.
per pound from the effects of the weather. I be-
lieve the lambs in question were fit for human food
at the time they were dressed. If the lambs had
been drowned, and had been afterwards well bled,
they would have been, if in fresh condition, ava.l.-
aXle for human food ; they would also have 1C.311
whole,.owe human food.
Cress-examined by Mr. Lewis—The smell from
the carcases was very offensive, on account of the
weather and the close packing. There was a
good deal of lightning, and that affects meat very
much. It the carcases were in such a state as to
bleed copiously after being taken from wa'er, the
effects of th ) immersion would not prevent thUr.
Wine. availab"e for human food. If tney had been
dead an hour and a half or two hours, I think they
would not ham bled.
Mr. Pockliagton, one of.
the inspectors of meat,
have had much experience in my business.