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the hook ; after the first side chain had been put up, and whilst the 
second chain was being put up, Webster and he looked in and 
saw the horse dowm. The upright partition was also broken. He 
did not see that any other damage was done to that or the next box. 
There was no complaint about a jerk from the passengers. Tlici-o 
was no jerk. The partition bulged out towards the platform, away 
from the horse. Mr. Branford did not complain. There was a 
graze on the horse’s hock, and as he (witness) was feeling it, the 
plaintiff swore at him and told him he was trying to make it kick. 
The plaintiff told him the horse was quiet enough, and he had 
ridden it seventeen miles that morning. He (witness) told him if 
he had done so he ought to be indicted for crueltv to animals, as 
the horse had no shoes on, 
By Mr. Bulwer—He never was a policeman at Bury, but he had 
been almost everything else. He (witness) was responsible for the 
shunting and making up the trains, and it was he who told Mr. 
Bobertson that no violence was used in shunting the box. The 
partition was broken, but it was not on the ground. He saw some 
one with the owner of the horse, but the man was never in the 
train at all. He would swear he was not. There were no other 
boxes in that train, and no other horses were loaded that dav. He 
could not be mistaken, for he remembered it well on account of the 
language used to him by the plaintiff, who called him a --fool. 
He did not hear Kisbee call out to any one that the box was being 
taken up to the train too fast. 
By Mr. O’Malley—He was one of the first men who opened 
the box, and he must have seen if Kisbee had been there. He was 
not there. In answer to the Judge the witness said that on one 
occasion he saw a partition broken in a similar manner by a horse 
at Chelmsford. It was a bigger horse than this one, but he could 
not say whether it was a cart horse or not; he believed it was. 
Thomas Netvhall, examined by Mr. Metcalfe, said, on the 20th of 
July he shunted the horse-box from the siding to the train. He 
accompanied it to the train, and there was not the least jerk. He 
had coupled the box to the train with the exception of the second 
side chain. He afterwards assisted in getting the horse-box up. 
By Mr. Bulwer—Mr. William Balls was his station master at 
that time, but he had not talked the matter over with him. He had 
been with him this morning, but had not mentioned the case to 
him—not particular, not particular. He had not mentioned it to 
Mr. Balls, not at all, not at all, not particular, like. They had not 
mentioned it to each other. That was not said, not all, sir, not 
at all. 
The Judge —Do you mean to say that you have been together 
all the morning, and not mentioned it at all? No, my lord, no, not 
at all. 
By IMr. Bulwer—There was another box on the same train. 
There had been no other horses sent that dav. There had been 
a special horse-box train from the show-yard. The partition be¬ 
tween the two horses was not broken down. It was just snapped. 
