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SLATER'S APPEAL.
DETAILS OF CASE FOR THE CROWN,
TAKEN TO "AVIZANDUM."
After the Lord Advocate had
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the girls were ed from the evidence of loitering? Criminal Appeal at Edinburgh at all. What AND LOCAL VOCALISTS.
The Lord Advocate: Most cer- Comyn, C.M.G. D.9.0., and Officers) eral announced in the Court of man, having seen the handcuffs port for that evidence be obtain that their lordships would take looking at was the man's face Tickets of Admission: $1.00 (Soldiers the case to avizandum, which and his walk, not the handcuffs. tainly, because both classes of
and Sailors in uniform 50 cents).
means that the judges will give Slater could, If he had wished, evidence are circumstantial Obtainable at Valunteer Headquarters their decision at a later date. have complained at the trial that Dealing with the point raised
and Anderson Muale Coy, Ltd.
("Avizandum," in Scots law, is a when the girls saw him in the by Mr. Aitchison that the then private consideration of a case by corridor of the court he was hand-Lord Advocate, in his address at a judge, where, after hearing the cuffed. He did not so complain. the trial, suggested that Slater LAMMERT BROS. parties, he temporarily with- "On the point made for the de-knew that Miss Gilchrist possess- draws the record from the court fence that Slater entered his ed jewels, the Lord Justice Gen- for private study.)
name in the hotel register at cral observed that for good or ill The Lord Justice General (Lord Liverpool before leaving the coun- the Lord Advocate told the jury Clyde) presided over the Court, try," said the Lord Advocate, that he was going to tell them the judges with him being the "the important thing to me is later how Slater acquired the Lord Justice Clerk (Lord Alness), that ever 'Slater' is not his own knowledge that Miss Gilchrist "But," his Lord Sands, Lord Blackburn, and name, and in Glasgow, with the possessed jewels.
one exception of when he went lordship added, "he never did so." THE have received Lord Fleming.
inter's coinsel, in addition to othexceptar office, Anderson
"MELODRAMATIC PHRASE.” Mr. Aitchison, were Mr. J. C.
The Lord Advocate: I agree. Auction
Watson, and Mr. J. L. Clyde.
On
whether the question
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SATURDAY, 18th August, 1928, commencing at 10.30 a.m.
at their Sales, Room,
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2 Cases Enamel Pots
25 Coils Spunyarn
5 Cases Artificial Silk Weft
24 Colls Steel Wire Rope
11 Cases Cameras, Plates, Dove lopers, Tripods. Magnesium Lamp and Brooches
7 Bags White Beans
1 Engine
1 Case Underwear
3 Cases Piece Goods 1 Case Hats
2 Cases Film
and
A Quantity of MISCELLANEOUS GOODS AND
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DIFFICULTIES OF THE CASE.
was his name."
CHANGE OF NAME. The Lord Justice-General: Slater's character was in issue at The Lord Advocate (Mr. Wm. The point was made by the the trial and whether a proper or Watson, K.C.), in his reply for the Crown that when Slater left this improper use was made of the Crown, said that the lapse of
almost twenty years since the country for some reason which attack" on his character, the trial had undoubtedly rendered nobody has explained he covered Lord Advocate said that if the some points difficult of determina-up his tracks by changing his Court were of opinion that there circumstantial was anything wrong he was not That is name. tion.
That difficulty extended evidence. I do not see any im. Igoing to defend it. The fairest not only to the appellant, but to portance attaching to the ques- possible standard must clearly be the Crown Office în ascertaining some of the exact facts on points raised in the course of the
case.
During the period, and particu- larly more recently, many state- ments-some of a rather sensa tional character-had appeared in the Press and elsewhere. "I am glad to think now. we have come to the actual test," said Mr. Watson, "that what is relevant and available for reconsideration of this verdict is of a very much Smaller extent than that which has so appeared.
the Press about the witness Helen "A great deal has appeared in table, which has not been sug- gested as worthy of inquiry in these proceedings. There was SATURDAY, 18th August, 1928, only one point on which appel-
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6 Cases Salmons.
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lant's counsel sought the evidence of Helen Lambie-the limited point about her statement to a previous witness."
With regard to another witness whom Mr. Watson referred to as "Mrs. Hamilton or Brown," he re- called that on the opening day of the appeal Mr. Aitchison said We have been furnished regard-
Undersigned have received Tinstructions to sell by Public, any that witness with certain in-
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TUESDAY, the 21st August, 1928, commencing at 11 am.
at their Sales Room, Duddell Street,
A Quantity of WELL-KNOWN CIGARS and CIGARETTES and TOBACCO Also PIPES, Comprising:
Dunhill, BBB, Orlik Peterson and other Well-known Make
And
formation from the Crown, and in view of the information we now have I feel quite unable to put her forward as a witness."
Continuing, Mr. Watson said;
Son. Chartes Curtis, of Kansas, Beʊms to be in high glee over his Domination as vice-president of the Benuhilean teket
"All I will say is that that in-tion whether he registered as formation satisfied the Crown, Slater at Liverpool. I should and apparently it also satisfied have thought it was very danger Mr. Aitchison that she
ous to have made a change of was quite unworthy of credence
name at that stage. regarding her story.".
The Lord Advocate said that the most striking thing about "NOT A RETRIAL" Very important matters had the case was how difficult people been raised in the appeal, said the found it to say definitely whether Ash Trays, Tobacco Pouches, Lord Advocate. He did not think the appellant was clean-shaven or Cigarette Cases, Cigar Cutters, there could be great dispute, if not. "I am entitled to say that etc., etc.
any, between Mr. Aitchison and people noticed that he was a (The above goods are from a himself as to the law or the limits dark man. In memorising his Well-known Tobacconists and re- of the Court of Appeal in that face it was the general look of the man that was so striking. He PARTICULARS OF THE LOT. {moved to our Sales Room for Con- matter.
venience of sale in small lots.) Clearly it was not a retrial, must have had a face that im- Terms: Cash on Delivery. Mr. Aitchison had brought for-pressed itself very clearly on On View from Monday Aftor- ward evidence not before the people."
jury at the trial. He had attack- noon, the 20th August, 1928,
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preserved in Crown prosecutions. Undoubtedly the phrase at the beginning of the, Lord Advocate's speech was a melodramatic one, hut in later part of the speech the matter was perfectly fairly put, and that was equally so in the judge's charge.
The Lord Justice Generál ob- served that no doubt the opening part of the then Lord Advocate's speech was highly rhetorical. He asked whether it was not com- petent to put forward the evid- ence on the question of character.
The Lord Advocate said that he submitted that as regards ad- mission in evidence it was "with- in the line," and that by the con- sent of all parties to the trial.
After the judge's decision to defer judgment the Court rose. [Reuter has since that Slater was successful in hið ap-: peal: also that an ex-gratia pay- ment of £6,000 was made to him from the Treasury,]
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The folowing unclaimed tele- The Lord Justice General ask- ed the case, as tried, on two ed whether the photographs of grams are lying in the E. E grounds as regards the suffi-Slater, which Helen Lamble and Telegraph Co. office, Hong Kong:- ciency of the evidence and on mis- Mary Barrowman were said to Cumming, Hong Kong Hotel, direction. The attacks made by have seen before "identifying" from Sydney. Mr. Aitchison on the speech of him, had been preserved. the then Lord Advocate (Mr. The Lord Advocate: We know Singapore Sub. Alexander Ure, now Lord Strath-nothing about them except that TUESDAY, the 21st August, 1928, clyde) were on matters which they were newspaper photo New York.
were obvious to the counsel for graphs.. the defence, a perfectly compet- The Lord Justice General: It ent counsel, and the judge at the is the worst of trying a case of time. Ground Floor).
this kind twenty years after- Cigars:-Habana, Manila and
Mr. Watson said that he hoped wards. I did not realise that Dutch
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commencing at 3.00 p.m.
at No. 16 Licensed Ware-house (No. 11, On Lan Street,
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had since died, the police recorde Lord Fleming: Was it an showed that Dr. Adams arrived American or: an English news- at Miss Gilchrist's house at 7.25 paper?
All Furniture and Fixtures. Terms:-Cash on delivery. On View from Monday, the 20th p.m., immediately after the dis- The Lord Advocate: 'I do not August, 1928.
covery of the crime, and was know. Mr. Fox (the attorney LAMMERT BROS,
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implied from that that Dr. Adams ings) is dead.
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They did know, he said, that Referring to the incident in there was local knowledge, er New York, when two witnesses tittle-tattle, about Miss Gilchrist's (as alleged by the defence) saw possession of jewellery, and the Slater handcuffed before they jury were entitled to infer that identified him, the Lord Advocate local gossip was the forerun- said that the evidence of the ner of the watch on the house. American witness Pinckley was Lord Alness: I agree that the valueless. Even H their lordships evidence of lottering is tremend assumed it to be true, it was con- ously strong. But assuming one sistent with neither of the girls, regarded the evidence of identi Helen Lamble and Mary Barrow-fication as shaken, can legal sup-
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