Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1892-06-04 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

DRESSING A DISEASED CARCASS.  AN ESTON BUTCHER AND COWEEEPER FINED 1.2.0 EACH.  At Middlesbrough Co...at), Police Court on Thursday Charles Hall, butcher, of Elston, was charged with haying dressed the &ream of • beast in his slaughter-house which was unit for human fool; and Ann Yates, cowkevtper, was charged with beieg the owner of the same. Mr Lennard, barnstsr, appeared to prosicute on behalf of the Eaton Local Board, and Mr Barnley defended.—Mr T. W. Stainthorpe, Sanitary Inspector to the Eston Local Board, state 1 that on the 16th May last on I entering defendants' slaughter house he saw the carcase of a beast evidently dressed for sale. The ueca portion wit% quite putrid, as was also the head. The stench wl9 aboni:nable. The carcass was dre-sel in the ordinary way when prepared for cuttiug up. He missed the lun ;a, and on enquiring for them Hall sail he had thrown them on to the dunghill. Hall sad he brought the cow from the cow-house alive at one o'clock in the morning, but he had to " stick it" on the way and carry the carcass on • cart to the slaughter - house. I Dr. James Glen saw the earesaa, and signed an I ceder for its destruction —Dr. Malconison spoke to seeing the carcass in question. Tee *narters and neck were nutria, as was also the bud. The :least was totally unfit, for human food.— Ur Headier said he saw the cow on the Sunday, and told Mrs I:ntes tnat he could do no good for the cow, as there woo symptoms of • foreign- sub ! stance near tits heart Ma Yates asked him what she should do with it, and Ite said if it was his he would slaughter IL By saying UM& he would , slaughter it he did not intend that it ihould be slaughtered and dressed for human consuniption.—Mr Bentley, in defence, submitted j that the carcase was uot dressed for sale, but simply in res.:lines,' for an inspection by Mr lioadisty. He subm,tteil that Mr Headley left the impression on toe minds of Mrs Yates and her son that he intended looking at the carcass after it was slaughtered. He contended that there was no attempt at concealment, as Had told a men in the employ of the Local Board that he was , slaughtering tho beast. Had Mr Hoadley turned up to see the annual, as Mrs Yates and Hall expected he would, there would have been no necessity for • prosecution at all.— John Calvert said he remembered Bendel., the 15th May He was then in the employ of the :Litton Local Board. Hall told him that h. was going to slaughter a cow. Witnese helped him to lift the carcass into a cans rvitneas was on:y a temporary servant He did not mention the matter to Mr Stainthorpe. Hall told him that the cow was iIL That Was preview+ to his going for it. Hall did , , not say that, he Was telling him about Use 00W , because he was a sorvant of the Board.--John Johnson, farmer, spoke to toeing the cow • few days before it was slaughtered, and it then appeared to b,, • healthy animal. Witness told Hill when he naked him to slaughter it he would make arrangements for Mr iloadley to j see it—The male defendant, called, said he saw a quantity of nails taken from the stomach. Part of one of the linage appeared to he bad, and he put it outside the slaughter-house.—'llie Magni, crates salt they considered the charges proven, and, as the ease was a most serious one, they would tine defendants £2O and £4 12s coal* each.  DITERMIIXI3 SUICIDI irAa Yozn. A commercial traveller named George Shepherd f 421, residing et Bishopthorpe, York, Lommitted suicide in e moat determated wanner on Tuesday. The unfortunate gentleman, who wim well known in the North of England, had been in ill-health for some months, and had in oonsequeuce been obliged to resign his position, looked himself in his bed-room, andliivr his brains out with a doublebarrelled gun, which, with a Are shovel, by means at which it, i• suppoeed be contrived to discharge lita weapon, was found lying IA his Lido. The daDeasell Worse a widow and several children. lateet and most li , . raki, Was ' '•olf