Fulton County GaArchives News.....Bad Pork Causes Trouble February 6, 1900
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The Atlanta Constitution February 6, 1900
Charges Preferred Against All Employees at Echols's Slaughter Pen--Trial 
Wednesday.

Cholera-infected hogs will form the centerpiece of another court case 
Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock.  The office of Justice of the Peace D. A. 
Cook at the corner of Marietta and Hunnicutt streets, is to be the scene of 
the trial.  Charles Witherspoon, who was fined $100 and costs in Recorder 
Broyles's court last Wednesday; George Burdett, his chief assistant; Otis 
Ogletree, Jim Hilton, John Bland and Henry Arnold are charged with a 
misdemeanor.  The last two are negroes.  The case was called in Judge Cook's 
court yesterday morning,, but was continued to Wednesday on account of the 
absence of the county attorney.  Recorder Broyles was present as a witness. 

Saturday night about dark Bailiff, Nat. Anderson, of Judge Cook's court, saw a 
negro, Henry Arnold, carrying a sack on his shoulders on Marietta street, near 
North avenue and asked him what he had.  The negro told him he had a hog which 
had been given him at Echols's slaughter pen, about three miles from the city. 

"What! A whole hog?" asked the bailiff. 

The bailiff thought it strange that a whole hog would be given away, and 
thinking that probably the negro had stolen the hog, made an investigation. He 
found the meat spotted, indicating that it was not sound and placed the negro 
under arrest.  Arnold said that he had been helping to butcher hogs at the pen 
and that this one had been given to him.  Anderson communicated with the 
sanitary inspectors with the result that charges were made against all the 
people employed at Echols's pen. 

The case will come up for trial Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock before 
Justice Cook. 





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