EXPOSURE OF GLANDERED HORSES. 501 
Whitsun fair day. It was tied in a paddock at the mash 
tub, to keep her out of the stable. He found her suffering 
from glanders. It was a clear and undoubted case of glan¬ 
ders. He had seen her on the 8th or 9th of April, at 
Stainsby, and she was glandered at that time. There were 
no appearances of recent strangles, to a practised eye, on the 
1st of June. Remembered two persons dying of glanders. It 
was a disputed point whether the disease was infectious, but 
he had no doubt it was contagious. (By Mr. Sergeant 
Miller.) He saw one of the men. That man had been ino¬ 
culated. He did not know George Harvey. 
Mr. Martin, re-called, deposed that the mare was kept 
until the Friday, and then shot. 
The warranty w T as then put in and read. 
Mr. Sergeant Miller addressed the jury. He said the 
question w T as not whether Mr. Henson sold an unsound 
horse, but whether he knowingly and wantonly exposed a 
diseased horse to the danger of her Majesty^s liege subjects, 
and of other horses and cattle. 
No witnesses were called for the defendant. 
His Lordship, in summing up, said that the question 
turned upon whether the defendant knew that the mare 
was diseased. He confessed that he considered the evidence 
produced showed a very weak case for the prosecution. It 
was not proved that defendant had only purchased the mare 
that morning, but there was some evidence to that effect. 
He referred to the fact that Mr. Martin, who was a good judge 
of a horse, did not detect the disease himself; and also to the 
fact that Henson was having the mare put amongst other horses 
of his, which he thought he would hardly have done if he had 
known that it was glandered. There was no contradiction 
of the statement that he had bought the mare of George 
Harvey; but Mr. Martin admitted that he had ascertained 
that there was such a man. If he had been brought here, 
and had said that he did not sell the mare to Henson, it 
would have made the case more suspicious. 
The jury consulted for a few minutes, and found the de¬ 
fendant guilty .—Leicester Journal , 30 th July , 1852. 
IMPORTANT ADDITIONAL FACTS, WITH REMARKS ON THE 
ABOVE TRIAL. 
To the Editor of “The Veterinarian .” 
Sir,— On the 6th of April last I was requested by Mr. 
John Line to go and look at his team of horses, he having 
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