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horse-slaughterer, and he required it should be delivered to him. 
Cross was there, but said nothing. Complainant persisted in taking 
care of the horse, and led it to Atchelor’s, a horse-boiler, in Sharp’s- 
alley, Cow-cross. The defendant denied his right to take any 
notice of it, as he did not bring it into the part where the horses 
are exposed for sale. He was a frequenter of the market, and he 
and others had a notion they had a right to bring their diseased 
horses into the sheep* market for sale, and have their benefit of the 
little competition in the knackers’ bidding, instead of sending for 
the knacker to fetch the horse, or taking the horse direct to the 
knacker in the old way. After securing the horse, he returned 
and examined the place where it had stood, and he found about 
half a pint of the discharge lying about on the ground and on the 
rail. 
Mr. Alderman Moon asked how long it had been standing there ! 
The sergeant said he did not know of his own knowledge. 
Wallsgrove, a policeman, proved that he saw the horse in the 
sergeant’s care, and shewed it to the veterinary surgeon who is 
appointed inspector of the horse market. 
Mr. Nice, the surgeon, deposed, that the disease was contagious, 
and communicable to man. It was a decided case of glanders of 
long standing. 
Hodges, a policeman, proved that the horse had been standing 
tied up to the rail twenty minutes before it was removed. 
The defendant said he only intended to sell it for killing. He 
sent for Atchelor, but he did not come for it, and he then sent for 
Cross, another knacker. He kept it quite away from the other 
horses. 
Mr. Alderman Moon said, he had no right to bring horses 
affected with a virulent contagious disease into any part of a public 
cattle market ; it was impossible to say what mischief might not 
ensue from the act he had committed. If he meant to sell the horse 
to Atchelor or Cross, he might have led it to their premises, instead 
of into Smithfield. He would endeavour to stop this dangerous 
practice by requiring the defendant to find bail to answer for the 
misdemeanour at the sessions, and direct the City Solicitor to pro- 
secute him. 
In default of sureties, the defendant was committed. 
The Times , Nov. Slh. 
