No. 4.] REPORT OF CATTLE BUREAU. 223 



During 1907 a number of prosecutions have been insti- 

 tuted against persons for selling horses with glanders, know- 

 ing or having reasonable cause to believe that they had a con- 

 tagious disease ; or for removing an animal, knowing or having 

 reasonable cause to believe it had a contagious disease; or for 

 breaking quarantine, — convictions being obtained in most 

 cases. In Haverhill early in the summer a physician was 

 prosecuted for selling a horse with glanders, and the court 

 found him not guilty. In July a Jew in Somerville was 

 prosecuted for removing a horse which the local inspector 

 of animals had quarantined. The court found him guilty, 

 but let him off by placing the case on file, as the man claimed 

 he did not understand English, and did not know he was doing 

 wrong. 



In October a Cambridge man pleaded guilty to removing 

 a horse, knowing or having reasonable cause to believe that it 

 had farcy. The case was placed on file, as the man said he 

 did not mean to do anything illegal, and only returned the 

 horse to a dealer in Pawtucket, where he bought it, in order 

 to have his money returned. The horse was later killed by 

 the Rhode Island Cattle Commission. 



In Lawrence, in October, two men were in court for selling 

 a glandered horse, one a stable keeper, the other the proprie- 

 tor of an auction stable. The horse was bought at auction in 

 Lowell August 15 by the stable keeper, who took it home to 

 Lawrence, where he kept it five days and then put it into an 

 auction room to be sold. The court found the stable keeper 

 guilty, and fined him $50, as he had the horse long enough to 

 find out what ailed it ; but found the auctioneer not guilty, 

 as it did not appear that he knew enough about the animal 

 to suspect that it had a contagious disease. 



An Italian horse trader in Woburn was in court in that 

 city in October for selling a horse with glanders, in July. 

 The court found him guilty, and fined him $100. He ap- 

 pealed, and appeared in the Superior Court in Cambridge 

 in December, where he pleaded guilty, and was fined $25. 

 The horse he sold came from the same auction room in Lowell 

 as the horse that figured in the previous case, and the Italian 

 owned him only four or five days when he disposed of him. 



