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SALE OF GLANDERED HORSES. 
the aperture. It was very difficult to keep the tube in the 
trachea when the patient gave a violent cough, and he was 
inclined to think that the dilatation at the extremities of 
Dr. Johnson’s instrument would facilitate its retention. — 
Dublin Medical Press . 
[*** Might not some contrivance of the kind prove useful 
in veterinary surgery? We have not seen the instrument 
here described. — Ed. Vet.] 
SALE OF GLANDERED HORSES. 
Thomas Blackburn, who had been out on bail, was charged 
with having, at Darlington, on the 10th of November, 
unlawfully caused a horse affected with the glanders to be 
taken into a certain public place, well knowing the horse to 
be so infected. Mr. Davison stated the case. It was one 
he observed, of an unusual kind, being only the second of the 
same description which had ever been tried. The prisoner 
was indicted for exposing for sale in the horse-market of 
Darlington, a horse which at the time was glandered ; and to 
make out the case for the prosecution, it would be neces- 
sary, in the first place, to prove that the horse was 
defendant’s; and, secondly, that he knew it was infected. 
The prosecutor, Mr. Scott, was a farmer at Elstob, and on 
the day in question was at the Neat Fair in Darlington, and 
had a horse for sale. Whilst showing the horse, a person 
named Macdonald, who represented himself as Mr. Watson, 
of Norton, told the prosecutor that he had a mare for sale ; 
they then retired to a public-house, and entered into a 
negociation. Watson wanted £6 to boot, but ultimately he 
took £4, which Mr. Scott handed over to Watson, and Mr. 
Scott then saw a portion of the money handed by Watson to 
the prisoner at the bar. The horses were then changed, and 
Mr. Scott was shortly afterwards told that the horse he had 
got was glandered. The prisoner, who was a carrier, after- 
wards made a joke of the matter, and not only said Mr. 
Scott was taken in, but that he had sold him a mare which 
was glandered ; and evidence would also be called proving 
that the prisoner offered to compromise the matter, and 
that the horse had been in his possession, and had had the 
glanders six months or longer. Witnesses to these facts 
were then called. Mr. Adams, of Aycliffe, and Mr. Flintoff, 
of Darlington, veterinary surgeons, were examined as to the 
disease under which the horse laboured. Mr. Adams said 
the horse had been glandered at least six months — he should 
