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Show Anti-Gambling Law Responsible for Suicide of a Turfman. Los Angeles. Despondentcy ovoi ill-fortune with his horses this season sea-son and grief over tho passage of the California nntl-gumbllng law caused G. W. Poole, familiarly known ns "Bishop," ono of tho oldest nnd best known horsemen In tho country, to commit sulcldo at Santa Anita track Saturday morning. Tho act was committed com-mitted In Poolu's stnblo on the track grounds. Ho opened his wrist with a razor, and, to mnko death sure, took a dose of carbolic acid. |