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a hog killed about three weeks before. There was no salt used about it and no taint was discovered. The head and a portion of the chine was from a hog which had not been killed over three days. The brains had not been taken from the head. The skull was broken as though the hog had been killed with an axe or some such instrument. The hair of the hog was dark. It was not nicely cleaned. The hair had been singed. The ears had been cut off. The nose had not been cut from the head. It was stained with fresh blood. The jole would weigh from six to eight pounds the head about five pounds. All together the head, jole and chine would weigh about thirty pounds. Such gorry pieces were worth 15 cents per lb. Pork was then selling at 25 cents per pound. On complaint being made to the Provost Marshal he issued an order for the arrest of the prisoner. Under this order he was arrested and while thus held he said he came honestly by the meat. That he bought it from one Alfred Bolling. At one time saying it was meat which Edward Taylor let Alfred Bolling have at another time saying it was meat from hogs which Alfred Bolling raised at Newton Martin where his wife lived and slaughtered at Newton Martin at the same time and in