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have had the honour of appearing on behalf of this society. — The 
learned gentlemen then called his witnesses to prove the facts of 
the case. 
[The length of the evidence prevents our giving other than the 
opinions of the veterinary surgeons who were subpoenaed in 
the case]. 
Mr. William Heaps, veterinary surgeon, Preston, said : I was 
called on the day after the trial to see the black horse, about noon. 
I found him suffering from inflammation in his feet, accompanied 
by an excessive amount of constitutional disturbance. The animal 
was in a profuse perspiration, and breathing very hard. His pulse 
was about 120 in the minute ; he had also a very haggard and 
anxious countenance. The grey horse, which I saw afterwards, 
was in a similar condition. Neither of them had colic when I 
saw them. The grey one died on the following Friday. I made a 
yost-mortem examination. He was in a healthy condition, con- 
stitutionally. There was a little congestion of one of the lungs, and 
slight inflammation of the intestines. The inflammation of the feet 
was caused by mismanagement on the day of trial. The mis- 
management was due to the treatment of the animals by the men in 
charge. They had had a large quantity of flour and water. Lami- 
nitis or inflammation of the feet proceeds from overwork. I have 
known flour and water, and even crushed wheat, produce laminitis. 
The flour and water would be very likely to produce it. In my 
opinion, laminitis was certainly not produced by the animal 
AYorking twelve hours. They were clean-legged, well-bred cart 
horses. By Mr. Catterall : They would not require much urging. 
By Mr. Addison: I don’t consider that shaking the reins over a 
horse’s back is urging. I don’t think the grass had anything to do 
with it. If it had been from over-exertion I should have expected 
more inflammation of the lungs. By Mr. Harris : Flour and water 
is given as a stimulant. 
Mr. Greaves , veterinary surgeon, Manchester : I was last year 
President of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, London, 
and have had thirty-seven years’ experience. I saw a horse. — Mr. 
Addison : We have no evidence that the black horse was shown to 
this witness. 
Mr. Wareing was re-called. He said: This is the gentleman to 
whom I pointed out the black horse. 
Witness : I made a post-mortem examination, and found an 
absence of any disease, but a considerable softening of the muscles 
throughout the system, and the walls of the heart indicated intense 
suffering. The flesh was clay coloured, soft, and flabby, in con- 
sequence of exhaustion of nervous energy. I consider that this 
state was produced by that accompanied by malignant intermittent 
fever. This was four or five days after it was shot. — Mr. Addison : 
It had been buried and dug up again. Witness : I have seen 
numbers of similar cases. — By Mr. Harris : The amount of work the 
horse had gone through would produce a state of exhaustion, which 
would bring on all the subsequent results I found had taken place. I 
