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called ]\Jr. Thomas Si Ison, who deposed : I live in Grinsdale, 
in the county of Cumberland. On the 23d of December 
last I sold a bay mare, at Carlisle, to William Brown, for 
which he was to give me £39, and upon that sale I delivered 
it to him at Carlisle on the 31st of December. He did not pay 
me for it then, but was to pay me for it as soon as he returned 
from Preston fair, whither he said he was going to take her. 
As far as my judgment goes, the mare w as then sound. Brown 
knew her previously, as he had had her a month before that, 
aiid w as perfectly aware of her condition. She w r as under his 
charge for breakage, for riding and driving, for a full month. 
On Tuesday morning, the 3d of January, I received a letter 
from him. [The letter was here produced, and read by 
]Nlr. Noble. It ran as follows : — ] 
“ Sir, — The mare I bought from you is unsound in her 
wind. She has been examined by a veterinary surgeon, who 
pronounced her a ‘roarer/ On the account of her being 
6 slape ’ when I bought her, I could not examine her as to 
wind. I must request an answ r er by return of post, to know 
w hat must be done with her. I could have sold her well but 
for that defect. Direct to Mr. Brow n, at the White Horse 
Inn, Preston. — Yours respectfully, William Brown/ 
From what has since taken place, I know that that letter is 
in William Carlisle’s handwriting. I came off to Preston 
immediately, and arrived at the station at a quarter-past eight 
o’clock the same night, and got to the White Horse at nine 
o’clock. Brown was not in then, but I met w 7 ith both the 
prisoners that night. I asked Brow n to let me see the mare, 
and the answer he gave me was that I could not see her ; she 
had gone aw ay that afternoon at four o’clock. I then asked 
him who w as the veterinary surgeon that had examined her, 
and he said William Carlisle, w ho was then in the house. He 
said he had sold the mare to a stranger from Woolwich 
— at least to a gentleman who said he was going to take her 
to Woolwich. Browm said he believed she w as intended for 
the army. I asked him w 7 hy he had not w aited for my letter, 
and he replied that he expected an answ er that morning at 
ten o’clock, and it had not come. 
Mr. Nolle called the attention of the Bench to that fact. 
Brown sent the letter on the Monday, and expected an 
answ r er by ten o’clock next morning. It was impossible he 
could get one. 
Examination continued : — He said he had done all for the 
best, and had sold her for £27- William Carlisle comes from 
Wigton, and is a veterinary surgeon. Brown and I went to 
the bar of the White Horse Inn, w here Carlisle was sitting. 
