GUILT DENIED

Grey River Argus, 29 March 1928, Page 6

GUILT DENIED

AFTER MANY YEARS’ IMPRISONMENT. LONDON, March 27. Oscar Slater’s first statement since his liberation in November is publishcd in the “Daily Express.” He declares: — “Twenty years ago.. I voluntarily of mv own fret* will, told an American Court that 1 waived all formalities and would be safe in my faith in British justice. Of my own free will, against nil advice, I offer ’d myself to British law to be tried for a murder I did not commit. Aly conscience was clear. I had faith, but some force known or unknown, crushed me, and dazed and bewildered, I staggered into twenty years of hell. Now again, voluntarily of my own free will I surrender my cause to the British justice in which I trust and believe with all my being. This time, truth and faith must conquer. For sixteen years in Peterhead prison, I was silent, under the silence imposed by prison law. by darkness and captivity, and by agony of tortures of mind. I almost forgot how to speak

but F held on to my brain. Now that I can speak. T recognise that it will ,(> hard to establish the truth.”