The Sun.
London, England, 1845-02-15 00:00:00

HORSE-FLESH SAUSAGES.

DANTMOUTII.—The Tories of this town seem to be
in jeopardy every hour, in censeauence of Mr. Moffat's spirited ap
peal to Parliament, to require justice for himself, and to have proved
the Ile ;ality of Mr. Somes's return, while on the other hand, the
Liberals confidently anticipate that Mr. Moffat will be successful in
his appeal, and ultimately triumph over all the subterfuges that har
be twown 1p liis way by the Tories, to the full, fair, and honourable
riprisslAstoo cif this boroneu

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Mr. Atcherler, a horse-slaughterer in Sharp's-alley, Cow
cross, attended before Sir Peter Laurie at Guildhall, to hear a
complaint that was about to be made respecting his esta-
bliihment by Mr. Lamplough, a chemist, at No. 88, Snow-
hill, and one of the guardians of the West London Union.
Mr. Lamplough had, it appeared, written to Sir Peter on the
subject, but the Alderman was unable to interfere, as his ro-
tation of duty at this office for a week had passed, and would
not return for upwards of twenty weeks. Mr. Lamplough,
however, finding Sir Peter Laurie was now sitting for Sir
Claudius Hunter, repeated his application in person, and Sir
Peter requested the attendance of Mr. Atcherler.
Mr. Lamplough said that a short time since, perceiving a
very offensive smell iu the New Farringdon-street, curiosity
induced him to endeavour to trace the cause of it, and he dis-
covered it proceededfrom the knacker's yard in Sharp's-alley.
He found several horses there, some waiting to be slaugh-
tered, and some dead. As he was leaving the yard a sight
presented itself, which excited his disgust, from a suspicion
which might or might not be well founded. He saw a
quantity of sausage meat brought from Mr. Atcherler's
dwelling-house, and remembered that while he was in the
yard he heard the click of a sausage-making mill.
On Friday last be and his friend again paid a visit
to the knacker's yard, and on leaving it they saw two baskets
full of sausages going from the same dwelling-house. They
followed the man and saw him deliver them at the White
Horse Inn, Fetter-lane, where he booked the baskets to go
to Brighton. If the horrid suspicion that entered his mind
that those sausages were partly made of horse-flesh were
well founded, it would partly account for some of the pecu-
liar diseases that had recently developed themselves in the
human frame, and which the faculty had a difficulty in ac-
counting for otherwise.
Sir Peter Laurie asked Mr. Atcherler if it was true that,
being a slaughterer of horses, he had a chopping mill for the
conversion of horse-flesh into sausages =Mr. Atcherler said
he had not.
Sir Peter asked if he had a mill ? Mr. Atcherler said he
had not. This was a very serious attack upon his character.
His house was at the top of the yard, and the dwelling-
house mentioned did not belong to him, but to Mr. Lans-
downe. He certainly had a mill, and carried on the busi-
ness of a maker of saveloys and polonies. With regard to
the smell from his premises, he: had the yard scalded out once
a week, and it was kept in as good order as any place of the
kind in the metropolis. The stench was as likely to come
from the premises of some of his neighbours.
Sir Peter asked how long Mr. Lansdowne had been his
next door neighbour? Mr. Atcherler replied about four
years. He did not make sausages, and it was plain, there-
fore, that Mr. Lamplough did not know the difference be-
tween a saveloy and a sausage.
Sir Peter asked if he ever sold any meat to Mr. Lands-
downe? Mr. Atcherler said he never did. His neighbour
went to market for himself. Their premises and trades
were perfectly distinct.
Sir Peter supposed they were not unfriendly? Mr. At-
cherler said they were not. He recollected Mr. Lamplough
coming to his yard and talking familiarly with him, but he
had no idea that Mr. Lamplough was coming to make a
charge against him. He seemed to be ready to swear to
anything.
Sir Peter observed that Mr. Lamplough had not sworn to
anything. • He had made a statement, which he supposed
to-be of grave importance to the public. He had stated it
as a matter of suspicion only, and it appeared he was under
a mistake as to the occupier of the dwelling-house. He had
reason to know other persons were labouring under the
same mistake, and that an article on the subject would have
appeared in print if he had not given Mr. Atcherler this
opportunity of explaining. It was rather remarkable that
a saveloy-maker should choose premises next to a horse-
slaughterer. In a recent great distillery case they had heard
of a convenient connecting pipe with other premises. He
did not suppose there was any such connecting pipe here.
Mr. Atcherler replied it was suspicious, and unfortunate
for both of them, that they should live so near. There was
no connecting pipe. He hoped the guardians paid as much
attention to the victuals of the poor as that sent to the folks
at Brighton.
Mr. Lamplough said the stench from the premises was
such as in warm weather to endanger the health of the
neighbourhood.
Mr. Atcherler, who is a portly, robust man, replied his
trade was very wholesome and particularly healthy. When
the cholera was so " enraged " a few years ago, nobody
hardly died of it in the workhouse adjoining his yard ; and,
in fact, people with no appetite came down to his yard in the
morning and went home and ate a good breakfast. He ab-
horred the idea of feeding people on horseflesh.
Sir Peter asked if his neighbour's mill was going every day ?
Mr. Atcherler said it was, but it did not work at night too.
It was a horse-mill.
Sir Peter was glad be had afforded him the opportunity
of explaining that he had no connexion with the sausage-
maker ; and wished him good morning.

EXCISE INFORMATION.—On Friday last, Mr. G.
Watson, of Finkle. street, Kendal, Westmoreland, tobacco manu.
facturer, on the information of Mr. William Walton, supervisor
of excise of the Lancaster district, was fined in the lowest penalty
of 501., the highest one being 9001., for selling a quantity of to-
bacco which was found highly adulterated with chicory. The eel.
sure was made by Mr. Walton, the supervisor.
ARUNDEL, THUR'DAY EVENING.—Her Majesty
and Prince Albert paid a visit to their Graces the Duke and Duchess
of Norfolk, at the Castle, this morning, and partook of a splendid
dejeune, served up in the Russian style. The party to meet her Ma-
jesty was confined to the family only, it being the wish that it should
be considered in every way a private affair. Soon after her Majesty's
arrival, nearly two o'clock, the Duke and Duchess accompanied her
Majesty and Prince Albert through the state apartments of the Castle,
and it is in, re than gratifying to observe that both expressed them-
selves in the highest terms of admiration at the great taste shown by
his Grace ;in tact, her Majesty stated explic tly that she had
not
seen anything equal to the splendour of the whole, more Pstrvirdi.
the library, which is supposed to surpass anything of the "
Europe. The Duke left this morning Par Worthing, fromo
Majesty left
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escorted her Majesty to Arundel. The weather wile
tious, sno*ing'lleavily the whole of the journeyer left
about half-past three, by the same route. is Grace escorted the
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carriago as far as Calceto Hill, where her. Majesty requested him to
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On Thursday and Friday, the 30th and 31st ult., at the
lonely village of Lammonby, near Greystoke, and about
eight miles and-a-half north-west of Penrith, in the county
of Cumberland, a respectable jury was impannelled on the
inquest held before Mr. W. Carrick, of Brampton, one of the
coroners for Cumberland, to investigate the circumstances
attending the cruel murder of Sarah Ann Crosby, a fine
little girl, aged about seven y.ears and a half, who was burnt
to death by her own inotTier, Jane,"the' wife of William
Crosby, an industrious husbandman, and keeper of the
small public-house known by the sign of the Blue Miller,
in the village of Lammonby. The investigation commenced
a little after noon on the 30th ult., and was continued till
midnight on Friday, when it was adjourned till Monday last,
the 10th instant. From the evidence produced on the first
and adjourned meetings of the inquest the following facts are
deduced :
William Crosby, the father of the murdered child, is a
labourer in husbandry, and is only at home on the Saturday
evenings and Sundays. He has a wife named Jane, and two
daughters, namely, Mary and Sarah Ann, aged respectively
about twelve and seven years, the only issue of his marriage with
his wife. Mrs. Crosby is a woman of most dissolute character,
passionate, and greatly addicted to drinking spirituous
liquors and taking laudanum in large quantities. The mur-
dered child was the greater favourite of the father (the mother
having poisoned the mind of the elder with indulgences
and threatenings), and was in the habit of telling him on
Saturday nights what her mother had done during the
week; and on that account the mother, from time to time,
manifested a most inveterate and inhuman dislike and
hatred to her younger child. She frequently most cruelly
beat her, and turned the poor child out of doors at bed-
tim • and kept her out all night, and on several occasions
threatened to put an end to the child's existence. In order
to carry this barbarous and unnatural resolve into effect, on
Tuesday evening, the 28th ult., she made up a large fire in
the kitchen of her own house, with the determination of
sacrificing her child in the flames prepared by her own hands
For reasons only known to this wretched woman herself, she
stripped off all the child's clothes and hid them in a hole
behind the inner door and in the ash-midden, and having
done so took the child by its legs and arms and literally
roasted it to death. One side of the face was much burnt
and the eye nearly out, and its breast and neck and back
were most shockingly burnt. It appears that the child on
being held over the fire had turned its head on one side and
thrust it forward, and by doing so one side of the face was
more burnt than the other, and that she had thrust her breast
against the red-hot bar, which accounts for the severe burn
on that part of the body. The wretched woman then took
the child off the fire, and held her on her knee by the fire-
side till life was nearly extinct, the little innocent faintly ask-
ing her other sister for a drink of water. On calling in the
neighbours, she said that Sarah Ann (the deceased) had
set herself on fire while she (the mother) was absent at a
farmhouse about two miles off, and made other incredible
excuses. A person was sent to the farm-house to inquire if
Jane Crosby had been there that day or evening, when it
was ascertained that the tale was a fabrication. Mr. Car-
rick, the surgeon, was sent for, but on his arrival he found
the child in a state beyond the reach of medical aid,
and the poor child died about two o'clock next morn-
ing. On examining the child's shift it was found to
be burnt about the neck and back, but the burnt places
had been made with a red-hot poker, and the other
articles of dress not being visible, suspicion became
stronger, especially when the prisoner's former bad conduct
was taken into consideration. Richard Weston, one of the
witnesses, searched the house, and found the clothes hidden
in a hole of the wall behind the inner door. On the first
investigation of this horrid murder, the elder girl seemd
reluctant to give her evidence freely, alleging that, if she
told the truth, she was afraid of her mother, who would ill-
use her. At the adjourned inquest, she gave her testimony
more frankly. Fourteen witnesses were examined; and, the
voluminous evidence having been gone through, the Coroner
in a lengthened address, explained to the jury the nature of
their duty on such a distressing ease. The jury then retired,
and shortly afterwards returned a verdict of " Wilful
Murder." The wretched woman was committed to Carlisle
Gaol, to take her trial at the next assizes, which commence
on the 22d inst.
This shocking tragedy has given rise to the greatest
ex,eltemen\ at Lammonby and the surrounding neighbour.
Wod, and, Weed, throughout the whole of Cumberland.

MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS.
The folloing are the results of " A Table of Mortality
in the Metropolis, showing the Number of Deaths from
all Causes registered in the Week ending Saturday, the
Bth of February, 1845." The Table is issued from the Office
of the Registrar-General :

Weekly
Total. Average 01
Five Years