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that Mr. King was out, they did not know where he was, but
they expected him back any time now.
I asked the shopman where they slaughtered. He said,
"At Plaistow," and on further questioning him, he said,
"At Chadwin Road, at the back of the Abbey Arms."
I then proceeded to Plaistow, and arrived at the slaughterhouse
about 2.30, and found in the slaughter-house a man
named Albert Knightbridge and Richard King. There was
also a carcase of a cow lying on the floor. I first asked
Knightbridge if he had had anything to do with the dressing
of the carcase. He replied, "No, sir, I have only just come
in." I then asked King what he was doing with the carcase
there. He said, "It is not for food." I said, "That remains
to be found out." I asked him where he got it from. He
said," It came from Whitechapel that morning." I said, " Is
this the one from Galinsky's?" He said "Yes."
I then made an examination of the carcase and organs,
and found the carcase was that of a cow about seven or eight
years old. It had not been cut down into sides as in the usual
way but had been divided across the vertebrae, and between the
eleventh and twelfth ribs. The lungs and heart were still in
the thoracic cavity. I found that it was extensively diseased
with tuberculosis of the lungs and the parietal pleura. The
whole of the mesenteric glands were greatly enlarged and full
of tubercular material.
The liver contained flukes.
Apart from these conditions, and clear evidence of choking
in the form of watery, swollen and broken down condition of
the lymphathic glands, paleness and friability of the kidneys,
friability of liver, and distension of the muscle cells, and the
general paleness of the carcase some parts might have been
passed, as it was a case of localised tuberculosis. That is, if
it had be slaughtered in the ordinary way.
King informed me that be had sent to Harrison &
Barber's to take it away.