CHAPTER VII 



MORE ABOUT THE POISONING 



Dictation from Grosvenor House "The Special Commissioner's " Lack 

 of Memory " He certainly took no notes" Was the Duke too 

 hasty ? Was the Horse poisoned ? What about Loeffler and the 

 Decayed Tooth ? Shake Hands all round 



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HE sequel to John Porter's visit to Grosvenor 

 House, as mentioned in the last chapter, was 

 that he wrote the following letter : 



To the EDITOR of " THE SPORTSMAN " 



SIR, As the trainer of Orme I desire to record 

 through the medium of your columns my own words 

 (as distinguished from others represented to have been 

 mine) as to this case. 



From the commencement of the illness of the horse 

 I concluded that the illness was no ordinary one, and 

 was something entirely new to my experience, and when 

 Mr Williams subsequently attended and examined the 

 horse on Sunday, 24th April, we both came to the 

 conclusion that the illness was the result of some irritant 

 which must have been administered to the horse. 

 Therefore on the following Tuesday morning I tele- 

 graphed to his Grace the Duke of Westminster that 

 Mr Williams was at my request proceeding to Eaton 

 that night to explain the nature of the conclusions which 

 were to the effect that we had no doubt that an attempt 

 had been made to poison the horse, although we had no 



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