OSCAR SLATER MARRIED
I 33-YEAR-OLD BRIDE :::£ FAMOUS CASE. fi-ErAELSSfe LONDON. July 14.!' Oscar Slater was married by ,deelt£L'a"> £ tion in the County Buildings.- Glasgow? vesterdnv. His liride was a London woman. • ;■- '"- -":?. : -: In the official enti'y,.Uie name was given asOseay JO's-eph Le.-ch-ziner, 64. widower, a bank book-keeper. of James Gvey street,* Glasgow. Xlio bride was; Lina YVilhelmina Schad. 55, spinster, of Queen's square. London. A number of people were outside the Sheriff's Court .when the wedding party arrived. The-groom i«ok his bride by the arm ami hurried into the County Buildings, accompanied. by three men friends. In 1903,'Oscar Slcu-r was found guilty at Edinbiifgli, by n majority of a jury of 15. of murdering an 82-y ears-old ivotn.in. Marion Gilchrist, and was sentenced to death. The sentence was commuted and he sejxed in.-p,risoiu-, A special Act- of■-Parliament "w<i* cd to enable him Uv appeal.- and'm. .tiilyj..--1928. flic verdict -was set a?ifle_ on 'ib'v"" irronnd that the. j'ivy had'" lieeifimslireeted. He later 'accepted £6XO h-«rij the Government-as ;m ex-eraiia payment for his wrongful conviction.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19133, 30 September 1936, Page 9
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172OSCAR SLATER MARRIED Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19133, 30 September 1936, Page 9
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