TALES FROM THE LONDON COURTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 160, 8 July 1899, Page 5 (Supplement)

TALES FROM THE LONDON COURTS.

SAUSAGE REVELATIONS.

Lovers of the crisp and crackling sausage will be more interested than edified by a case which came before Mr Bros at North London on the 11th ult.

There were two defendants—Frederick Adams, wholesale sausage manufacturer, of 40, Chalmers Road, Homerton, and Charles Hart, wholesale cuts' meat dealer, of 105, Railway Place, Mile End—and they were prosecuted by the vestry, the first for having on his premises lewt l.lbs of bad meat for the purpose of preparation as human food, and the second for selling the carrion to the sausage-maker.

The meat hi question, which was seized by the sanitary inspector of the Hackney Vestry, was described as stinking aiid on the verge of decomposition, and appeared to have belonged to animals which had died a natural death.

The evidence showed that Adams gave a sort of standing order to Hart to supplement, and Mr Bros, in giving judgment, said a man who drew supplies from such a source should exercise the greatest caution. Adams did not see the moat, but he must accept the responsibility for It.

Each defendant was ordered to pay £50, or go to prison for two mouths. The money was at once puld.