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WAS SLATER INNOCENT?
NEW GIRL WITNESS AFTER
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police, who had the conduct of the case, are those who bear the heaviest load.
The genesis of the error of Slater's conviction is explained by Sir Arthur.
"It was supposed, though it has never been proved, that, a dia mond brooch had been taken from of the murder. Miss Gilchrist's' room at the time
Another sensational and highly |controversial chapter has been added to "the Mystery of Oscar Slater," who for 18 years has been serving a life sentence for a
Pawned a Brooch. murder of which, many expert
"The police discovered that criminologists, including the crea-Slater had left Glasgow for tor of Sherlock Holmes, believe America and that he had pawned him innocent.
a diamond brooch."
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has now written a gripping introduc- tion to a volume by Mr. William Park, a Glasgow journalist, who has just published a book called; "The Truth About Oscar Slater."
brooch never belonged to Miss Sir Arthur contends that this Gilchrist, that it was Slater's and the police knew it, before he sail ed for America.
UNIONS STILL ALIVE.
BUT MORE POLITE IN TONE.
While unions of late do not ap pear to have been 20 active adopted a much better tone of ad- as formerly they have certainly dress. The Hankow Pure Ice Com pany has recently had occasion to discharge several of ita men and this has brought forth which is worth publishing as
A letter illustration of the different tone now adopted by the unions in com- .parison to that of a few months the Provincial Union states that ago. The letter which comes from they have been requested to take up the case by the Engineers Union and it reads as follows:-
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However, a cable was sent to
"We beg to state that in accord- have Slater arrested on his arriance with reports sent in by work- It may be recalled that on val in New York, "a grave official ing members of the Hankow Pure December 21, 1908, an eighty blunder against Slater," says Sirce Works to the union to which two-years-old, unmarried woman Arthur
they belong that the manager of named Marion Gilchrist, who, Now Mr. William Park makes ten of the workmen without any the said works has discharged over lived at 16, Queen's Terrace, West known the evidence of a party reason, and that three more door- Princess Street, Glasgow, was hitherto unknown in the case.
keepers are to be discharged on the found murdered,
She is a girl who makes the 1st of September. This constitutes A few days after, a German Jew claim that she was an eye-witness a grave danger to the workmen known as Oscar Slater was ar-night of the murder, at the pre- against their will, and for no rea- in West Princess Street on the since they have been discharged rested and charged with the mur-cise moment when the assailant son of which they can approve. der, On May 6, 1909, he was rushed from the stairway. found guilty and sentenced to man, she is prepared to swear, death,
On the eve of his execution, was not Oscar Slater, which should have taken place at Glasgow on May 27 came a sensa- tional reprieve and he, in the words of Sir Arthur, "is still eat ing out his heart in Peterhead
Jail."
In the course of a trenchant ap- peal for a public inquiry, Sir Arthur makes a series of startling allegations against persons in high authority who were interest ed in the conduct of the trial.
He points out that in 1914 a' Single Commissioner was ap- pointed to inquire into the whole matter. But "that matters of vital moment to a genuine inquiry,
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police in the preparation of the case, were excluded from the in- vestigation."
Many to Blame. There are many to blame for the persistent miscarriage of justice," says Sir Arthur.
Judge Guthrie is to blame be- cause he did not bring out the points which would have thrown light on the truth.
The Lord Advocate is to blame because his speech was a heated and unmeasured one, containing statements which were orrors in fact.
Witnesses were to blame who allowed their testimony to vary at different times and stages of the proceedings..
Each successive Secretary of State for Scotland is to blame be cause he did not use his own in- dependent mind to find out an ob- vious truth.
Sheriff Millar is to blame for the conduct of the white-washing committee of 1914, but, above all, the Procurator Fiscal and the
This
Manager Must Behave, "All unions are under the pro tection of the. Central Government She explains her decision to re- through whom the privileges of the frain to give, evidence at the workmen are safeguarded, and since trial because she did not want to the workmen are thus oppressed be mixed up in a murder case, and there is no difference between this husband who besought her to keep "Nationalist Government for the was very much influenced by her and spoiling the policy of the
protection of the farmora and ed to hand this matter over for labourers. You are hereby request. negotiation to higher authorities so that the workmen who have been their employinent, and moreover in- discharged will be able to resume
clear of the law courts.
cludes his introduction to Mr. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle con- Park's book by demanding a thorough public inquiry into the whole matter. "But let it be a real inquiry."
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struct the manager not to repeat such behaviour in the future. If workmen are to be discharged for the simple reason that business is slack they should be given allow- ances, in accordance with the scale drawn up by the unions, and their posts are not allowed to be filled again becoming normal!" by other candidates upon business
An Amsterdam telegram states that on October 1 the military air- man Lieutenant Koppen will start that as the writers are responsible The letter continues to the effect from Schipol on a flight to Batavia, for tho safeguarding of the pri- returning to Schipol aerodrome the vileges of the workmen, they must same month. He will use a Fokker request that these men are permit- VII machine, with three Armstrong-ted to resume their work forthwith. Siddeley Lynx engines, The route and that in future if it is desired of about 710 to 968 miles, the re-first consulted so that justice can will be divided in daily journeys to discharge men the union will be plished in ten flying days each way. Is decidedly different in tone to turn journey being thus accom- be done to both sides. The letter On neither occasion will the airman land at Singapore, but it is pro- posed to stop at Medan, the main purpose of the flight being the transport of malls.
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what employers have grown accuE- tomed, but it is obvious that the laws of supply and demand, are still a sealed book to those who con- aider themselves an authority on the labour question. The difference la tone, however, is ample evidence of the ability of the Government to curb bellicosity when they feel in- clined to do so.
It is notified that the raté per floor for limewashing in Hong Kong, and Kowloon shall be $3.80 for the period of one year, commencing from October 1, 1927.
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