The morning news., 1889-05-29
FINING THE OFFENDERS.

Mayor Schwarz Infiicts Penalties 70
Selling UnsOund Fish and Meat.
In the mayors court yesterday, the fol
lowing cases, placed upon the information
docket by Inspector Desvergers, of the Citi
zens' Sanitary Association, were heard:
L. p Maggioni. fish dealer, was charged
with having offered for sale in th,
city market uusound meat. Mag
gioni attempted to set up thC
defense that the fish were not unsound, but
one Of the fish so exposed, had been carried,
| Immediately upon its seizure by the in
| spector, to the mayor, and was subjected 70
| mis- inspection, and the fish had spoken for
! itself so Impressively that the mayor Or
| dered it taken out with the garbage from
| the police barracks. MaggiOni was fined SEQ.
The other cases were those of W. J. r.
Hyatt, who bought the hogs which were
banished from the city last winter because
Of cholera among them. The testimony
disclosed that on the morning of May IA q
dressed hog was Loticed hanging to the
hook behind a stall in the market at which
Hyatt sold pork. Its condition was
such as 70 attract attention,
the meat indicating that the animal
was diseased when slaughtered The atteu-
ton of Market Clerk Mattox was called to
it and he kept his eye on it until the market
bell rang, when he saw a c0lOred man
taking it to the vault. Upon inquiry be
learned that the c0lored man was acting
under Hyatts orders Mr. Mattox seized
the meat and destroyed it, He sub
sequently saw Hyatt aud asked if the hog
belonged TO him. The latter answered
that he did not know that it
did; be had lost several hogs by theft and
supposed when he saw this one on his stall
that it was one of his stolen hogs and had
therefore ordered it taken to the vault. In
SpectOr Desvergers took the matter under
investigation, and he learned that the hog
had been brought to the market by Mel
chiOh Giovich, beef butcher, commonly
known as Greek George, who slaughters
at ono Of the butcher pens on the southern
borders of the city, and who claimed that
he had brought the hog in for Hyatt The
testin3 ny before the mayor disclosed that
the hog had been killed from a lot of hogs
kept at the butcher pen by Hyatt; that the
colOTed man in charge of the hogs had killed
it and that Giovich had brought it in at mis-
request and hung it at the stall used by
II yatt in the market; that he killed
the hog because it had got hurt by the other
hogs, and he had been instructed by Hyatt
TO Immediately kill any hog to which any
thing happened and send it to him at the
market When he found that something
was the matter VITA the hog he killed it in
obedience to those instructions and sent the
meat in TO Hyatt.
Mr.. Drayton testified that his attention
had been called to the hog where it hung in
the market, and that he pronounced it dis
eased and unfit for human food. The in
spector testified that the meat of every hog
kept in the place, and that of the hogs
which Hyatt had at the pen referred to,
could not be food fit for a human being
Hyatt contended that the bones which
the Inspector testified he saw in
the hog pen with these hogs
were the bleached bones of the hogs which
had been condemned as cholora hogs last
winter, and had been carried out and dried
at that time.
The mayor, after hearing the case, fined
Hyatt so, and in default Of payment thirty
DAYS.
The case against Giovich was dismissed,
as the inspector stated in his testimony that
he thought it proper to say that he had
placed GiOvich on the information docke5
because he was the person who had placed
the hog in the market, but that the testi-
many disclosed that he had only brought it
in by request to Hyatt. without any inten-
ton of selling il himself