Star.
London, England, 1829-06-29 00:00:00

POLICE IN TELLIGENOL

GUILDHALL. •
Saturday Aimee lifaukass, a wholesale butcher,. attended before
Mr. Alderman Ker, to answer the complaint of Mr. Denby, the
foreman of the Inquest of -Farringdon. Within,. for exposing to sale
the carcase of a bullock, and a piece of loin of beef, which were
unfit for human food. •
Mr. Dansby stated that the Inquest 'whited the shops in the mar-
ket about seven o'clock in the morning, and at the defendant's they,
found the meat in question, which Mr. Wood, one of the bumps,
men, who is a butcher, declared to be unfit for the food of 50...
From the questions he piit to the person who had the care of else.
premises, it appeared this meat was for sale ; but when Ni.
Matthews arrived; he mid it was already sold, but the bayer bad
neglected to take it away. A quarter was brought into the Justice
Room, and the effluvium that proceeded from it was exceedingly
nauseous.
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Mt. Wood, a butcher, in Ivy lane, deposed that thoeamet, lira
not fit for food, and it was in this state from disease, said set frolia
the kngth of time after killing. •
J. Bates, a Maria, said be had been a butcher for twenty
years, and was of °plait* this bullock was nothinglitik but a tali.
one; it was not merely ?oar, but what the butchers call a dews'
right " wet !mi."' The lungs felt the hand like a wet dish-chest:
Mr. Woofer (Mr. Harmer's clerk) said the defendait's answer
to this case was, that the meat was not exposed for sale. having'
been sold previously • and secondly, that it had not been sold for
the food or mm. He called James Hooper, who deposed that hr
slaughtered the animal, which had been purchased at Southall. He
had takenlivers in a worse state from beasts in good condition than
from the bullock in question.
Mr. Wpoler remarked that the same thing happened to man ;
his liver *as affected sometimes, while the other parts of his body
wire not.
• Mr: Alderman Kee asked the witness if he could swear the.
kiwi was nut diseased?
Witness answered he was not experienced enough to tell.
Mr. Dunsby said if he was so inexperienced his evidence was
worth little. •
Mr. Woofer said, as the animal had walked then thirteen mile;
from Southall, it could not have been in a very bad state.
Defendant said it had been'brought 100 miles. Ile gave 71. 10s.
for it, intending to sell it for dog's meat, or for the wild beasts.
He sold it on Thursday morning to Miles, a sheep's head dealer,
who keeps about so pigs, and fattens them on such offal. '
Sir. Dunsby—" Why, the carcase had been rubbed over with
tat, if it was intended for dogs.* •
Defendant said he expected to get a higher price in consequence.
. Mr. Over,'a retired butcher, said this carrion was purchased by
the udlage arid polony -Makers. Some respectable salesmen would
not sell to them. He remembered seeing a sausage maker, then in
the ,Justke.room, offer Mr. Boyce, of Newgate market, Aid. per lb.
for a sheep which died, and had been kept for five or six days be-
fore it was sent to town. Mr. Boyce, however, said he should not
have it at a &sines a lb. preferring to retiree it for doe's meat at
ld. per lb.
Mr. Wookr called Miles and some others to prove the sale, but
from one witness it appeared the sale was conditional, namely, that
Miles would at any thaw give ad. a stone, if dtfeadant failed in
getting rid of it at the market on better terms ; and •
Mr. Alderman Kay ordered the whole to be burnt at Smith-
field forthwith, and held the defendant in sureties to abide a City
prosecution.
Rosetta ifirwerd, otherwise Noakes, was charged with bigamy.—
The first hatband was the complainant, but there being a doubt
whether he could produce legal evidence, the prisoner was dig.
chargedrThe complainant seemed almost distracted at the result,
and rushed out of the ofbw alter her, declaring be would never
leave her till he obtained justice.
W-STREET.
I. Bland. Esq. of Walton.place, Grosvenor-place, was charged
with committing a violent assault upon his servant boy, Wm. Day.
'Mr. Bland is a gentleman well known on the turf, and is, of course,
connected with the first sporting circles.
William Day stated, that he is groom to Mr. Bland; on Satur-
day week a fire broke out in a stable adjoining to that of his master,
and be, by great exertion, saved a horse, gig, and other property,
from destruction. When his master came home he was verrangry,
and struck him twice on the side of the face ; soon afterwards, as
witness was•going down stairs, his master kicked him on the. sem'
mach, and he was obliged to go to Mr. Emerson, of Piccadilly,
surgeon, for assistance.. Mr. Emerson; finding hint in a dangerous
state, sent' him to St. George's Hospital, but he.was not admitted,
the [amitotic's' being filled with patients. • • •
It appeared from Mr. Bland's statement that the boy bad rel
ceived two sovereigns as a c..mpensatioo for the blows, but at that
time he was not aware that the effects of the kick were likely lobe
so serious.
Mr. Muumuu. said that the two sovereigns might be considered
a satisfaction foe the blows on the face; hut the kick em the breast
might have deprived the boy of life, and he ordered .Mr: Mad to
find bail to stonier the charge at the Sessions.
A VAUXHALL PAILITo-411% Horatio Powell, Mr. T. Palmer,
And Mr. John Green, were brought up in the cugtody of the watch.
twen—the two latter charged with assaulting them, the former with
'having assaulted a hackney coachman, and the whole party with
having broken the windows of a chariot, and other mischievous
acts against the peace, atc.—The defendants foupd•bail and were
set at liberty.