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could see very little laminatis. If there had been intense laminitis 
we should have had separation of the hoof from the lamina. There 
was no evidence of separation. There was very slight congestion of 
one lung, which would very likely take place after death. In my 
opinion the horse would present the symptoms I have described 
from the work he had been put through. Cross-examined by Mr. 
Addison : I saw the horse on the Friday (it was shot on the Monday 
previous). I could not judge as well of the horse as if I had seen it 
immediately after being shot. My impression is that he had suffered 
from laminitis, and intermittent fever, which always accompanies 
laminitis. I have never known flour and water produce laminatis. 
It might do so in a horse of high nervous temperament. You could 
not have got horses of low nervous temperament to have done the 
work. Bamlett’s horses were of less nervous temperament. By Mr. 
Clarke : The effects that followed over-work killed the horse. I 
cannot say what would be a fair day’s work for horses at mowing. I 
don’t know the draught of a mowing machine. Mr. Clarke : Then 
why say so positively that they were killed by over-work ? By Mr. 
Harris : I could not judge so well after they were dug up as the day 
after death. There was no disease to account for death. In my 
opinion the horse died from over-work. Mr. Addison asked if 
witness had any remuneration from the Society for the Prevention 
of Cruelty to Animals ? — Mr. Harris said nobody had. 
Mr. Nuttall , veterinary surgeon, said he agreed with the evidence 
of Mr. Greaves in every particular. I should not have shot the 
horse so soon. In my opinion, he died from over-exertion, and that 
alone. — Mr. Addison : And that alone ! Then the bullet had 
nothing to do with it ? (Laughter.) After a horse had been a week 
ill I should expect it to exhibit symptoms of exhaustion. Can you 
distinguish between the symptoms of exhaustion arising from a week’s 
illness and that produced by over-work ? After a great deal of 
hesitation, the witness said it would not be an easy thing. Mr. 
Addison : I should think not. Witness : I should think it would 
take a great deal of flour and water to produce laminitis. Mr. 
Addison : Then you don’t agree with the distinguished gentleman 
who has just given his evidence ? Witness : Not in everything. I 
consider mowing hard work. Suppose we had given you the draught 
of the machine, what do you think would be a sufficient quantity for 
a pair of horses to mow ? Witness : About six acres. — Mr. Harris : 
That is an answer to my friend’s own question. 
Mr. Addison rose to reply. He said this prosecution was insti- 
tuted under the Act of Parliament for the prevention of cruelty to 
animals, but the real intention and meaning of that Act had been lost 
sight of altogether. Everybody of right feeling must sympathise 
with those who would prevent that wanton cruelty which a man could 
not inflict without knowing it. After referring to persons of good 
feeling being urged to get up such societies as that for the Prevention 
of Cruelty to Animals, in order that a number of other persons 
might exist and live upon salaries, and to the getting up of sen- 
sational cases such as this by persons connected with the society, as 
