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EARLY NEWSPAPER STUNT.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1927.

"IT WAS NOT OSCAR SLATER."

THE FRENCHIFYING OF THE STATEMENT BY WOMAN WHO

BELL SAVAGE.

LONDON

HISTORY.

On Tuesday, La Belle Sauvage is to be put up for auction. "A

IDENTIFIED HIM.

AN ALLEGED ADMISSION.

A startling development in the number of freshold and leasehold case of Oscar Slater (who, for the properties"-thus with admirable murder in Glasgow in 1903 of Miss restraint the auctioneer's bill Gilchrist, is still serving a life sen- has It: there is no wordfence at Peterhead) is a statement about development of theby Helen Lambie (one of the prin site as yet, but one cannot cipal witness against him), which but expect something of the kind is tantamount to an admission that to happen, writes an Obaciver she blundered in identifying Slat- correspondent in mall week. er as "the man I saw coming from

Not that there is anything of the house of my murdered mis- great antiquity to be destroyed; truss."

the great courtyard round which Helen Lambic is at present, In the House of Cassell is built America. The following are ex- does, It is trife, suggest still some-tracts from her statement which. thing of the spaciousness of the appears in the Empire News: Inid conching yard. It was one of When I told the police the name the oldest and most famous in the of the man I thought i recognised City: the galleries of the inn (leaving the house on the night Provided one of the earliest play-of the murder) they replied "Non- houses. The courtyard na itsense! You don't think he could stands now with the tall arch have murdered and robbed your way that gives access to it from mistress!"

Ludgate Hill, is probably much They scoffed so much at the no- the same in shape and size as the tion of this man being the one. I inn-yard was very large and fit had seen that 1, ullowed myself to to entertain a great many coaches be persuaded that I had been mis- and horses, and doing a very taken.

good trade" says Stow); but the I was taken to the prison, and buildings which stand round-neked it I could pick out a man albeit there is a mysterious resembling the one I had seen Elephant and Castle over one of eaving the flat of my, mistress on the doorways--are mostly Vic- the fatal day. torian.

I looked at a number of men.

"It was not really Slater."

It may be still true that the They all seemed alike except one full-tide of humanity is at Char-who had a dark, foreign appear ing Cross (though the telephone nee. I said at first I did not see authorities officially hold that it anyone, but I was told to tryi is at Oxford Circus), but Ludgate again. Hill has had its fair share of tide for a good many centuries, and has taken it all with a notable

All the while I had it in my complacence, malataining still a mind that this foreign-looking man certain addity of character. For must be the one I had heard rum-| all its smoky face La Belle Sau-ours about, and when I looked at vage possesses that air of eccen-him again thought I detected tricity as of an old mas retiring some resemblance to the man I on a small competence. It does thought I had recognised as a for- not owe its distinction to its rier friend of my mistress, I told historic associations. The Ta-the police what I thought, and I bard, of which there is still some suppose having done so it was thing that guide may palat to, easy for me to keeping saying that is richer in those; and Sam thought this was the man Weller's Inn, the George, has its staircase and part of its gallery still extant. La Belle Sauvage did not mix itself too much in history. It has one great story; Whatever happens to the site and Slater I saw, the yard, the name remains a permanent monument of the suc-with the swarthy-looking Slater, cess of what was perhaps the first newspaper "stunt."

Article in the "Spectator."

I have had plenty of time to think it all over since then, and the more I think the more do I feel that my first impression was right, and that it was not really

''

The more comporé that man

the more am convinced that I was betrayed into reversal of my original notion that resulted in Oscar Slater being condemned for a crime he may not have committ

It goes without saying that there would be stunts almost as ed. soon as there were newspapers. At the time of the trial I was This one hegan in the Spectator, | so bewildered by the way in which No. 28. This issue of the paper everybody seemed to be trying to Concerned itself almost exclusive-make me say something I didn't ly with a letter that Mr. Spectator want to say that half the time I had received, in which his curres- could not think clearly at all, and pendent suggested that there was it may be that in the excitement I need in London of a new officer, gave impressions that I was more a censor, a regulator of inner less bound to support when signs. “For want of such an questioned.

ofliver, the letter contimed, But I have had plenty of time "qur streets are filled with Blue to think over all since, and were I Boars and Red Lions, not to men- asked to-day, whether I thought tion flying Piga and Hogs in Oscar Slater was the man I saw Arms, with many other creatures coming from the house of my mur- more extraordinary than any indered mistress I should be forced the deserts of Africa. If the to say I am convinced that it was learned correspondent were-as not Sinter..

was but reasonable--himself ap- Finally, Helen Lambic says she. pointed to the post, his "irst task is still ready to appear before any would be to clear the city of committee of inquiry that may be monsters.

set up.

Sir A. Conan Doyle's 'Cömment,

When he has finished exploring the Inns of London, laying down the law about this sign and

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who that, and stirring one knows not has made persistent demands for how many landlords to protest the reopening of the case, makes the next morning, he turns to the following comment:-

The Bell Sauvage," as the inn The matter is of enormous im- was properly called. "As for portance. Indeed, it is not too the Bell Sauvage, which has the much to say that it must mark sign of a savage man standing the end of the Oscar Slater case. by a belf, I was formerly very In this document Helen Lambie much puzzled by the conceit of

admits that wach she Baw it, till I accidentally fell into the the murderer she recognised reading of an old Romance, trans-him being

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with lated out of the French, which whom she was famillor as a gives an Account of a very beauti-visitor to the house. She then ful Woman who was found in a confirms the statement of Lieut. Wilderness, and who is called in Trench that she mentioned the the French La Belle Sauvage name of that visitor to other peo- and who is everywhere translated ple that night.. by our countryman the Bell Savage."

Education on a Landlord.

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She tells us that the police. would not receive her plain state; ment as to who the murderer was, and that they called her "an auld Now up to the time this article gossip" when she tried to make appeared in the Spectator the inn's the point clear. She shows that name had never been spelled but gradual pressure was brought to in the blunt English way-which bear upon her until she was finally Indeed is not to be wondered at,placed in the position of joining aceing that modern antiqueries the cabal against the unfortunate have unearthed a fifteenth-cen" and innocent Slater. tury deed in which the inn is What recompense ean now be described alternatively as “Suva- given to the man for a life which Tesynne" and "The Bell on the has been wasted by the folly of Hope" Clearly, what happened his fellows? And what atone- is that the name of an. carly ment for the honest Detective landlord and the inn's name were Trench who died, ruined and brok-.. Joined together on the sign-en-hearted when he was punished which indeed ought to have pleas-for trying to right the wrong? 1. ed the correspondent, of Mr.may say that there is nothing Spectator, who.commends heartily which I did not see, and describe the ingenious Mrs. Salmon, who, in my book, published in 1912. opening her wax-works in Fleet- The Glasgow police declined to street, hung out a sign depicting make any comment regarding He- that fish. Antiquaries have since len Zambio's alleged statement. told strange stories about an

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48 circumstances may direct; their Attention is directed to Condition owners, when identified, will be No. 4 imposed in the licence, na prosecuted. Dogs wearing ineffec- follows:

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