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carcases. In consideration of these facts, the prosecution did not 
desire to press harshly against him. 
Sir W. II. Bodkin said it was impossible to estimate the ruin and 
misery caused by sending this putrid meat to be retailed in London, 
where it carried disease among the poorer classes. The evidence 
showed that in this case the meat had been sent in a state that was 
absolutely disgusting, and Stevenson must be sentenced to six 
months’ imprisonment, with hard labour. As regarded Birks, his 
case differed in a very marked manner from Stevenson’s, and, as he 
had suffered pecuniarily by these proceedings, the order of the 
Court would be for him to enter into recognizances to come up for 
judgment if called on. 
In connection with the practice of certain wholesale meat salesmen 
being selected for the disposal of meat unfitted for human food, we 
find by a report in the Times, November 23rd, that the same Robert 
Sketchley, of Charterhouse Street, was fined 31. and costs, with the 
alternative of a month’s imprisonment, for selling two quarters of 
“bad cow beef” to Edward Cozens, sausage maker, Beehive Wharf, 
Wharf Road, City Road. 
The Evening Echo, in its comments on this case, says: — “ When 
a police magistrate of some experience says that “ he has heard dis- 
closures of facts which he had never known before,” it is probably 
worth while for the public generally to look into the case. Mr. 
Robert Sketchley, of Charterhouse Street, was yesterday before Mr. 
Newton, charged with having two quarters of cow beef for sale, 
which was unfit for human food. The filthy stuff was found on the 
chopping-board of Edward Cozens, Beehive Wharf, City Road, in 
course of preparation for sausages. Satisfactory proof was advanced 
that it had been sent from the defendant’s shop, and the price given 
was Is. 8 d. a stone. So far, unfortunately, there was nothing un- 
common. What roused Mr. Newton’s horror was the revelation 
that it is the custom of some butchers to cut out diseased parts of a 
carcase and cover it with hot fat from good meat, to deceive the 
people. It is not pleasant to think how dreadful are the liabilities 
of sausage eaters, and we trust that if ever a case should again arise 
in which there is so good evidence of deliberate fraud as that 
afforded by the deception which horrified Mr. Newton, there may 
be no option of a fine allowed to the convicted prisoner. 
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We have received the following from Mr. Samuel Davies, 
agriculturalist, of Cilfallen, Newcastle-in-Emlyn, Cardiganshire. 
It is evident that the disease which he describes is not splenic 
apoplexy. 
“In the Welshman newspaper an article is copied from the 
