SALE OF GLANDERED HORSES. 505 
meet with no more encouragement from a Court of Justice 
than I did, I may safely predict it will be the last. 
The county is indebted to an upright and intelligent jury 
for a most just verdict. Doubtless it struck them that the 
obstinate refusal of Henson to take back, or even to see a 
horse he had warranted sound, but which was proved within 
half an hour to be otherwise, was prima facie evidence of his 
dishonestv. 
They did not fail to assign a motive for the “ wiping ” of its 
nostrils; and the fact of their having always been wiped when 
my bach was turned , was too remarkable to be without its in¬ 
fluence. Had Henson shown a readiness to take back the 
horse, and to go in pursuit of the man, George Harvey, of 
Sewstern, of whom he said —but it was not proved —he bought 
it, the policeman would have given him every assistance, and 
my co-operation would not have been wanting. No witnesses 
Avere called for the defence. Why was not George Harvey 
in attendance to prove the sale of it to Henson as a sound 
one ? I did not know, until some days after, that Willows 
and Christian, who gave evidence for me, were in possession 
of the facts they stated. 
I see little prospect from the trial, which I undertook at 
much inconvenience and very great personal annoyance, to 
say nothing of the expense, of any beneficial result to the 
public. 
The summing up of the judge inspired a host of low horse 
dealers in court with so much confidence, that before he had 
concluded I was literally told that an action would be brought 
against me for false imprisonment! An alteration in the 
law' is loudly called for, and earnestly desired by the whole 
country. If it were made felony to buy and sell glandered 
horses in markets and fairs, and law 7 ful for magistrates to 
order them to be shot, there w ould not only be an end to the 
practice of dealing in them, but the disease itself w 7 ould soon 
be extirpated. Your obedient servant, 
Henry Martin. 
Leicester Journal; 
Aug. 6, 1852. 
