A. “Yes, an Irish terrier.”
Q. “What happened to it?”
A. “It got poisoned.”
Q. “When was it poisoned?”
A. “I think on the 7th or 8th of September.”
Q. “Was that thought to be done by someone?”
A. “I did not think it, for I thought it might have eaten something, but Miss Gilchrist thought it was poisoned by someone.”
Q. “To kill the watch-dog—was that the idea?”
A. “She did not say.”
The reader should be reminded that Slater did not arrive in Glasgow until the end of October of that year. His previous residences in the town were as far back as 1901 and 1905. If the dog were indeed poisoned in anticipation of the crime, he, at least, could have had nothing to do with it.