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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 88, 12 April 1912, Page 5

In the Magistrate's Court at Hamilton the other clay Robert Sanclclands pleaded guilty to throwing ;i poisoned sausage in ■ tho yard of a neighbour by which a dog, valued at £5, and some eats were poisoned. He was fined £2 and eosts £3 3s. His wife was also charged with poisoning,a dog, and admitted the offence, but 3a : .d she knew the law. and handed mutton, charged with/ strychnine, into .. the clog's mouth. His Worship said this did not constitute a breach of the Act, which provided for dropping, laying, casting, or throwing poison, and dismissed the case. The trial at Krakow of a Polish advocate named Steinfeld, who has come to grief through gambling, has been the occasion of some curious revelations about the hold which t*ns v'ce has on business men in Austrian Poland (states a London journal). Dr. Steinfaid's wife, in'her endeavour to keep her husband out cf temptation, tried the plan of never leaving him out of her sight, even when he went to his office. The lawyer then made a practice of going to bed early and rising at ! in the morning, before Ids wife was awake, in order to hurry off to the so-called "Monte Carlo' 'trt Krakow, which he would find still in full swing at that hour. When staving at hotels during the summer lie would arrange meetings with otnecard players in the i).u |, - , ''Miri, and play there for lours., wVia lie told his wife that ' e was ia'.:.*g a cold water cure.