Denaby Swine Fever Case – Ignorance No Excuse

December 1901

Mexborough and Swinton Times, December 20.

Ignorance No Excuse
A Denaby Swine Fever Case

Joseph Cramp, a Butcher, of Denaby, was summoned for movement of a carcass of swine from a swine fever infected area, on the sixth of December; and Michael Smith, miner, Denaby, was summoned for causing the same to be moved.

William Parson, a miner, living at Cliff View, Denaby, on December 2 saw Cramp kill a pig. Smith then put it into a cart on the highway, and took it away. They did not try to hide it at all.

He had been served with a notice forbidding the removal of pigs without a license, as well as other owners of pigs in the district.

William Goodwin, a miner, residing near the defendant Smith, gave similar evidence.

Defendants, admitted the offence, Cramp pleading that he was ignorant of the fact that a licence had to be procured to remove a carcase. He thought that the act only applied to live swine.

The defendants were ordered to pay the costs (15/6)