1914-05-01 — Page 3

GENERAL NEWS.

AN INNOCENT MAN.

THE | HONGKONG TELEGRAM FRIDAY, TAY 01, 1914.

Slater was guilty, you are faced with the extraordinary, incredible coincidence that the police got da. Sir A. Conan Doyle's Plea for hold of the right man by a mis- will be

take. it is utterly inconosivable that they should secure the right

Mr. Balfour's Latest Record. 8119 day, perhaps, quale recognition

made of the obligation which Mr. Balfour has rendered to his gen eration, saya the People.

As a statosman, Farty lender, critic, and philosopher, indeed,

Oscar Slater.

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suspicion.

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Grave Mis-statement.

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the innocence of Slater, who wÁS "Another point of great import conventions and condemned to death at Edinburgh suce is that a mis-statement was er-down of tradition, a bringer of new things. for the murder of Mise Marion made by the Lord Advocate in

It is more than thirty yourage Gilobrist in her flat at Glasgow his speech for the Crown, a mis-and Telephone. since be startled official propriety on December 21, 1908, and who statement which does not appear by attending Cabinet meetings is now in Peterhead Prison, the to have been corrected at the in a soft felt hat and a jacket suit. capital sentence having been moment by either the judge or Then he helped to tablish the commuted, two days before the the defending counsel. He spoke week-end habit, which is now date fixed for his execution, to without notes a most dangerous one of our most settled institu- penal servitude for life. thing to do-and in the course of tions; and thanks to his influence,

Numerous discrepancies and hie very eloquent speech made an more than to any other, golf was inconsistencies in the evidence allegation that Slater'e name had introduced into this country as for the prosecution were pointed appeared in the Glasgow papers, national pastime. But having out by the famous author and nd that subsequent to that he started all his contemporaries criminologist in a pamphlet led from the country. The point and juniors on golf, Mr. Bilfour published Lurtly after the trial,e of vital importance, and an ex- has made another departure be but he modestly disclaimed the amination of the dates will show has taken up lawatennis, in descredit of being the firet to draw that there was absolutely no pite of the handicap of sixty-five public attention to the weakness foundation for the statement. Bia years. An ex-Prime Minister of the case against Slater, the name did not appear in the untering for a lawn-tennis tout-writer of the preface to a report papers until nament 18 un unparalleled.portent of the proceedings in the Highter, and by that time he was E., No. 74, Mount Kellett | But it is one that is immensely Court at Edinburgh having been far out in the Atlantic." encouraging.

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Brose the outrageous údour that aid Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. been attracted by unusual noises.Prince's Buildings.

time I first read the case have I two entered the flat believed that Slater was guilty, together, and as they did so a'man and it is terrible to think that an emerged and made his escape. A girl named Barrowman also prison, so I shall always respect murderer running away from the innocent man should be lying in saw the m a presumed to be the Mr. McKinnon Wood for having

was pervading the whole house To which Joanes replied: "You see, sir, to-day's a saint's day, and the butler, 'o's 'igh Church, and is burcing hincense, and the cook, ing brown paper to hobviate the

she's Low Church, and is burn.

bucenas."Liverpool Pest,

Was he a Jonab?

A correspondent w.ites to the Times:

The head of a firm of chartered accountants exrrying on business in the City had two appointments at his office booked for last: Friday. Some time past the hour' fixed for the first interview he learnt by telegrani bat his client had died that morning, after an and operation for appendicitis. the afternoon the accountant waited for his second client, who failed to appear, and when a message of inquiry was sent, the ply was that he also had died suddenly of appendicitis.

An hour or two afterwards the

the strength of mind and sense of justice to bring up the case

"In Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's opinion the evidence of identifi- gain.

Searching Inquiry Needed. calon given by those three "The public conscience will witnessed only amounted to "half- not be at its ease until the case | kearied recognitions,” and he is at has been thoroughly investigated a loss to understand how any one by an impartial commission such could accept it as being enough as that which established the in- to establish the guilt of the nocence of Edalji. To my mind prisoner, especially in view of the the most important point for contact that in the Heck case there sideration is the manner in which were teu witnesses who had seen Slater came to be suspected at all. the real criminal under normal The only article missing from the eroumstances, and yet were all orescent diamond prepared to swear to the 1998 brooch, and shortly after the man. murder the police heard that

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of that nothing really incriminating Piccadilly circus, W. that appeared from the descrip was found a Slater's trunk, and

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!N. LAZARUS,

Makkalonin Optician'

Nothing is more wa

'thy of your con

The trouble that to-day in small and saal-

accountant's wife came to hition givan to be the one whiob, there were no bloɔdetains on Receiver, reported that the appli olice with the news, received by presumably, had been stolen by of his belongings; the evidence

the murderer. Consequently called by the defence to show cant kad obtained an order of the been drowned in a buat accidont they came to the conclusion that that Slater could not have bзen Court to expunge proofe of debt at Venice, and hardly had she he was the man, and at that time made up her mind to make a hnr- that was the only thing which at the flat at the time of the chased them to suspect him. He murder; and the failure of the ried journey to linly when there was then ou his way to Amerios. connecting link between later prosecution to produce the least came a second telegram saying He had weeks before announced and she murdered woman. Five alleged to be, due from thressideration than the welfare of your eyes

his intention of going away-it ous of fitteen jurymen voted for was no sudden impulse or secret light and vertain letters are

not proven, and another for not stated to have been received by gulliga division of opinion him which would explain why he which, under Engleh law, would ruther hurried his departure. The police had him arrested on landing at New York, and they found no him a pawn-ticket for a diamond brooch. This enabled IF you have lost your appetite them to recover the broach-but one of the big variety of it was not the one missing from ainty dishes at the ALEXAN- the flat after all! Therefore, DRA CAFE IR sure to temp assuming for the moment that

that her sister as well as her mother had perished. Saldom does it come into the experience of say man to encounter in single day so many successive blowe of tragic otrcumstance.

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