AN OLD MURDER CASE
FRESH INVESTIGATION ORDERED. (By Telegraph. — Press Associatiou.— Copyright.) LONDON, 23rd March. Mr. M'Kinnon Wood, Secretary for Scotland, has ordered an investigation of Oscar Slater's sentence, owing to fresh doubts as to his identifier's evidence. [It was reported on 21st August, 1912, that Sir Conan Doyle, the well-known novelist, in a booklet, demanded an enquiry regarding the case of Oscar Slater, convicted of murdering Marion Gilchrist nt Glasgow in December, 1908. Sir Conati searchingly analysed tho unsatisfactory evidence adduced at the trial.]
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 70, 24 March 1914, Page 7
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85AN OLD MURDER CASE Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 70, 24 March 1914, Page 7
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