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February ; Carter was not up, but he got up, and they came to look at a 
red and white cow, which was in the mistal with others. Sheldon asked 
when she was to calve ? Carter said he would warrant her to calve in 
April. The price was £14, with the assurance she was to calve in April. 
He (witness) also remembered Sheldon coming on the night of the 5th 
of March to look at a roan-coloured cow. This cow, he said, had been 
bought by Carter on the previous Thursday, and was not well. She 
was put in the shed entirely to herself, and not near the other cows; she 
could not eat, and therefore would not do for Carter. Witness was to 
say nothing about the cow, and his master said he would sell her. When 
Sheldon came. Carter ordered witness to take all away from the cow, 
and to ” straiten her up a bit.’’ It was a wet night when Sheldon came. 
Mr. Hinchcliffe was with him, but he did not know whether the latter 
stopped. Witness got a light and went with Carter and Sheldon to look 
at the cow in the shed. On seeing her, Sheldon said she was thin, and 
not all right. Carter assured him that she was as hearty as a fish, and 
would eat anything.” She was sold for £14 5s. Witness had been in 
the habit of going with his master to the markets, and the latter entered 
his cow transactions in a book, but it was not the book shown in court, 
it was a much larger one. 
Mrs. Sheldon was the next witness. She remembered Carter calling 
at their house, and saying he had a good cow if they wanted one. Her 
husband bought the cow on the 15th of February, 1862, and she came 
on the 18th. She calved on the 26th of June, but was to have calved 
in April. She (witness) also remembered Carter calling again in March, 
and saying he had another and a better cow than the last. Her husband 
went with him, and bought the cow, and she came the following day. 
Witness went to look at her and saw she was not well. Carter came on 
Saturday and thej" told him of her. He wished them to go for a drink 
to his house, and give it her, which they did, but the cow was no better 
for it. The cow was a roan colour. 
Edward Grange was next called. Witness was Mr. Sheldon’s servant 
man. He went to Scissett on the 6th of March for a roaned cow. When 
he had got her home, master said he thought she was not well, and, ulti¬ 
mately, they had to call in the cow-doctor. He (witness) had asked at 
Scissett why the cow had been kept to herself? Carter said it was because 
she was not well, and for fear of “ appydemic” to the other cows. 
Sarah Ann Woodward said she was servant girl at Mr. Sheldon’s. 
She knew-of a cow coming to her master’s on the 18th of February, 
1862, and of another coming in the fore part of March. The second 
cow was poorly when she came. 
Mr. Thomas Hinchcliffe, tallow chandler, Skelmanthorpe, said that he 
had taken Messrs. Sheldon and Carter from Hoyland to Scissett in his 
conveyance on the stormy night in question. When on the road, Mr. 
Sheldon’s hat was blown off, and while that gentleman went to gather it 
np, he (witness) said to Carter that there must be something up in going 
to look at a cow on such a night as that. To this Carter said, “ Say 
nothing about it; its all right; the job is done.” Witness called with 
Carter at Sheldon’s the week after, and they asked how the cow was ? 
Mrs. Sheldon said she was very ill, and that Carter had advised them to 
kill her. Witness had some conversation with Carter afterwards, when 
the latter said he ought to do something towards compensating the 
Sheldons for the cow, but if he (witness) would keep away, then he 
(Carter) “ could beat the devils.” 
John Exley, gardener, of Scissett, next spoke to having some conver¬ 
sation with Carter on their way home from the Mason’s Arms, at Clayton, 
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