VETERINARY JURISPRUDENCE. 
537 
By Mr. Chittock —I saw no symptoms of it. I have had experience 
for forty-five years, and have seen thousands with the scab. I saw 
nothing in these sheep indicating it. I am in Mr. Plattin’s permanent 
employ for weekly wages, and have been so for fourteen or fifteen years. 
Mr. Plattin chose out the ninety sheep, and told me where to drive 
them. No one else gave me orders. The man who tended them helped 
me out of the field with them. I was ordered by Mr. Plattin to book 
them to Mr. Hawkins, of Harrow. I did so. There were no others 
moved on that day. I went as far as Fakenham with them. I saw Mr. 
Case, the inspector, there. He went down the line and looked at them. 
He did not speak to me. I afterwards removed a number of other sheep 
by my master’s orders. On the 5th of March I sent 208 to Mr. Syder, 
ofFakenham, to Tottenham, and on March 8th 100 to the same person, 
and 217 to Mr. Hawkins, of Harrow. I afterwards sent some to Wake¬ 
field and Thornage, and others to Mr. Hawkins, of Harrow, on two or 
three occasions—altogether 1159. I took these all away from Holkham 
by my master’s directions. I did not observe a symptom of scab amongst 
them. 
James Scales, yardman to Lord Leicester at Holkham, said—I remember 
the sheep being removed. I helped to drive some away this wintertime 
from the great barn. I don’t know when. 
Mr. Blofeld withdrew the witness, observing he came from the hostile 
camp. The Bench would see his difficulty. 
Thomas Ransome , another yardman, remembered Mr Plattin taking 
sheep away from Lord Leicester’s. I helped to drive them. I don’t 
know when. Mr. Freemer told me to help. I don’t know what quantity ; 
more than a score, somewhere about a hundred. 
[Mr. Ransome , of Darlington, called by Mr. Chittock by leave of the 
Bench, witness having important business engagements, deposed to re¬ 
ceiving ninety sheep from Plattin on March 18th. I saw no scab amongst 
them. I had some of them for three weeks. I never saw any symptoms 
amongst them. I handled them for value; if they had had the scab I 
must have known it.] 
Mr. Blofeld resumed: but the Bench said the question was as to the 
animals being suspected. Mr. Chittock observed that it was for the 
defendant to suspect, not the inspector. The Bench said the case had 
better go on. 
Thomas Ransome (examination resumed) assisted to drive them to the 
park gate. 
By Mr. Chittock —I did not help with the first lot. I did afterwards 
with another lot as far as the gate, and no further. I don’t know when. I 
remember Mr. Case finding a sheep diseased two days before Mr. Freemer 
found two others. Mr. Case told me to turn it out. Mr. Hamond came 
to examine the sheep a few days before Mr. Case had been there. I 
caught three. To the first he said, “ Let that goto the second he 
said the same ; to the third he said, “ All right, let it go.” I have been 
used to sheep for thirty years. On February 25th the sheep were all 
sound. I could see nothing the matter with them. I saw nothing wrong 
from the day Mr. Freemer took the two out. 
By Mr. Blofeld —Professor Axe did not come to my sheep in the field. 
Mr. Blofeld said that was the case for the prosecution. 
Mr. Chittock , for the defence, contended that no case had been made 
out. He was quite prepared to meet the case on its own merits. Lord 
Leicester had acted perfectly bona fide ; everything had been done that was 
possible ; the law had been fully complied with; and, moreover, he was 
prepared to prove that there was no disease at all when these sheep were 
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