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in excess of the value of the horse, judging from the descrip- 

 tion sfiven. The owner of tlie horse in Norfolk was fined $10 

 in the district court in Franklin for removing the horse, the 

 court showing leniency because the State had already killed 

 two horses owned by the defendant, and the thu'd horse had 

 l^een traced and killed. 



In the report made Jan. 10, 1906, an account was given of 

 three men having Ijeen fined in Fitchburg for trading around 

 a pair of glandered horses in the summer of 1905. These 

 defendants appealed, ])ut before the cases came to trial in 

 Worcester in January they withdrew their appeals and settled. 

 These horses were traced back, after several months' search, 

 to Oxford. It was ascertained that they came from a farm 

 Avhere the State had already killed horses with glanders. 

 This pair with another horse was taken away in July, 1905, 

 by the owner's son and a man who had previously worked 

 for him, and traded off" in Barre and Phillipston, whence the 

 pair afterwards killed at Ashby were taken to Fitchburg. 

 In the district court at Webster the owner and his former 

 employee were fined $100 each, and the son, a youth of 

 about twenty years of age, was fined $50, the latter receiv- 

 ing a lighter fine partly because of his youth, and partly 

 because he caught glanders from the horses on the trip, and 

 had been ill with the disease for several months, part of the 

 time at the Worcester hospital. Appeals were taken, and 

 later at the Superior Court in Worcester the boy's case was 

 placed on file ; and the two men pleading guilty, their fines 

 were reduced to $75 and $50, the larger one for the owner, 

 the smaller one for the employee, on the ground that the orig- 

 inal fines were i)roportionately much larger than those im- 

 posed for a similar oflence in the district court at Fitchburg. 

 In April a Rehoboth man was fined $20 in the district 

 court at Taunton for removing a horse, knowing or having 

 reasonable cause to believe it had glanders. 



In Attleborough a few days later another man was fined 

 $25 for removing the same horse to Providence, where he 

 was unable to dispose of it ; he then brought it l^ack to Attle- 

 borough and kept it in his barn basement for two or three 

 weeks, where it was located by agents of the Cattle Bureau 



