Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1858-01-30

pGirtlSo h3NS on
to sausages in consequence Of variou.
reports being circulated that such arti.
clcs OF food was manufactured from
dogs flesh, horse flesh, and even the
meat OF Cats. Shops where sausages
were vended have been avoided, and
the pork-stand in corner groceries
hos been looked upon with dlstrust.-
No assurance on the part Of the dealers
tina: their sausages were made in the
country could dlspel the idea enter
tanned by the purchasers that the arti-
Gle was made of anything else than
dogs meat or horse flesh. Every now
and then the reports made IN the pa
pcrs relative to the arrest of such a
one charged with vending sausages
made from animals other tn n those
generally used for articles Of food, have
Strengthened their aversion in the mat
ter. While hundreds have entertain
ed An aversion TO the savory food, As
many more have made it a staple arti-
Gle of diet once, twice or thrice a week
have partaken Of the nicely crisped
mcrsels with a relish. Such have be
lleved the statements Of their grocer
and pork-butcher that their susages
were made in the country, and con
tanned nothing but pork with perhaps
a scrap OF SO OF beet. Nothing could
INDUCE them to believe that aught e.se
but pork and beef were used, and the
bow-wow Of dog or neigh Of horse in
front of their doors could not affect
their appetltes.
Yesterday afternoon Jefferson Mar
kct Police Court presented a curious
eenc-t the room being crowded with
spectators anxious to witness the dis
position Of two Germans who were
caught in the act Of cutting up the
carcass OF a large dog. The passage
through the street of three officers hav-
Ing in custody two Germans who were
bearing a large washtub, filled with
spurious looking meat, attracted an i'm
mense crowd. The facts attending the
discovery and orrest of the parties
charged with the manufacture of sau-
sages out Of dogs meat are as follows.
Yesterday morning a daughter of
one of the Twenty second Precinct otii-
GERS while sitting at a rear window of
her residence in Forty-eight street near
the Eleventh avenue, was disturbed bv
the yelping of a dog, and looking out
she saw a man in the opposite yard
with a small axe engaged in killing a
large dog. The man beat the dog up-
on the head until the animal was dead.
They then hung up the carcass and
took off the skin, after which they car
RED the body and skin to "A real room
on the second floor.
Here they proceeded to cut up the
body and pack it away in a washtub,
while a woman, the wife Of one of
them, proceeded to clean the e~ntrails
with a view of using them to- stuff sau-
SAUCE meat in. The young woman
suspected something wrong hastened
to the street, and meeting officer John
Nc. ougal of the Twcnty-second pre-
cinct told HIM what she had secn.-
The officer forthwith procured the as
~slstancc of officers Casey and Tompkins
and entered the house, where they
found two men who are named Francis
Miller and A: Dire Schweizer epcayed
IN cutting up aud packing away in a
washtub the carcass of a dog, a woman
the wife of Miller, being at work clean
lnga quantity OF cntralls. In another
room IN a barrel the officers found a
quantity ofsausages. Everything pre-
tanning to the unfortunate canine was
found in the room, and placed in the
Tub. The parties We're then arrested
and with the tub conveyed to the JEFF
terson Market Police Court.
Miller when arragined before Justice
Kelly, said
Il vas sick and mcin toctor dold me
to get sumo tog vat vor mein cough.
| wouldn't kill elm tog for SlOO-ifI
would you can cut my droat from ear
to ear. pousht pig zone time ago
and bald ten dollars u"d dhirty cents
o i'm, ind as | has a large family ov
childer, | make mein own sasages--I
never zell EN- TO no one. | never kill
a tog pcfore, und pought dis one ov
SCHNEIDER for six shiIlings, he wanted
a tollar und | wouldn't give it to i'm.
De toctor dold me to dake tog vat und
| vas doc poor do puy EN- at de truy
sthore; I pought a pound ov and uld
woman.
Shemezier said that he sold the dog
to Miller and engaged to kill the ami
NAL for him and help him to put it
One Doctor Thorn Germany said
hat Miller came to him two years ago
suffering with consumption, and that
he prescribed for him, At length he
becameto Door to buy medicine, and he
told him to 60 to the drug store and
get some dog fat that Miller went to
the store but could only buy two
ounces as they asked 81 a pound for
it. Subsequently he got some from
an old woman. At length he got so
poor that he could not buy the fat,
when the doctor told him he knew
not what to recommend further. The
doctor said that ha had not seen him
before for six months, and did not
know what had become of him.
Justice Kelly decided to hold the
accused to bail in the sum of $1,000.
Two of Miller's neighbors became
surety. TIE sureties protested against
the matter they said that he only
killed the dog for his fat and did not
make sausages Of the meat. A butch
or who was in the Court room examin-
ed the sausapes and said thew contain