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name the sum he would take with the pony for the horse ; 
and he said £25, but considering that too much, he offered 
him £20 ; Mr. Hamill told him (Mr. Magennis) to divide 
the difference, but he at first refused to do so ; ultimately, 
however, he and Mr. Aiken tossed up for the price, but he 
(Mr. Magennis) lost, and paid £22 10s. with the pony for 
the horse ; he took the horse home that evening ; next day 
he saw a number of pimples between his legs ; he appeared 
like a horse that had been hunting, and jagged with thorns ; 
there was also a hard lump under the shoulder, about the size 
of a crown piece, and on the off-side of the neck ; in five or 
six days after, other lumps started up on the neck ; the first 
lump he saw broke about ten days after its appearance, 
and from it there was a slight discharge ; the horse never 
laid down, and appeared uneasy; about ten days after the 
purchase, he also became lame, and discharged slimy and 
corrupted stuff from his bowels. Mr. Grogan, Veterinary 
S urgeon, was sent for, and he came and lanced the lumps ; 
the horse ultimately died on the first week in September ; 
four other horses, which he had at the time, subsequently 
took glanders, and had to be shot ; before he purchased Mr. 
Hunter’s horse he never had a glandered horse in his stables ; 
he had an old horse that died with him some time before the 
Banbridge fair of June, 1852, but it was not of glanders ; he 
estimated the value of the four horses which he shot, and the 
harness which he destroyed, at £200 : the horses, independent 
of the harness, were valued for £150; since that time he 
was afraid to put any of his horses in the stables, lest they 
might get the disease; he afterwards spoke to Mr. Hamill 
about the horse, and also wrote to Mr. Hunter on the sub- 
ject, after the horse died. 
Mr. King, Veterinary Surgeon, examined by Mr. Andrews , 
Q.C. — He had been in court during the examination of the 
various witnesses, and he had heard them describing the 
sickness of the horse ; from the nature of the symptoms, he 
had no hesitation in saying that the horse was affected with 
button farcy, that disease had tendency to turn into glan- 
ders ; as far as he knew of the case, he could not take it upon 
him to say that the horse in question died of glanders ; the 
symptoms of the dimples and lumps that had been described 
showed that the horse was decidedly unsound ; button farcy 
was infectious , but not contagious ; it was a disease synonymous 
with glanders. 
In cross examination by Mr. Moore, Q.C., he stated that the 
chraracteristic symptoms of glanders were an enlargement of 
the glands of the lower part of the throat, and ulceration of 
