THE CASE OF OSCAR SLATER.
As among those who have joined in demanding an inquiry into the case of Oscar Slater, now alter eighteen years I a free man, we welcome the statement made, bv the Secretary for Scotland. Sir John Gilmour departs from the official attitude and declares his willingness, if a single-clause Hill can he passed as an agreed measure, to remit the case to the Court of Criminal Appeal. No more satisfactory tribunal for the re-examination of the evidence could he suggested ; and as all parties are agreed about the desirability ot an inquiry, it may be expected that the I necessary Hill will be quickly passed through all its stages. It may be regrettable that the step which is now to be taken was not taken long ago; but it is reassuring to know that the very earnest doubts as to the justice of Slater’s conviction will he either sustained or set at rest. It is better that Uritish justice should be shown capable of error than that it should appear indifferent to the suggestion of error.—The “Morning Post.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 27 January 1928, Page 4
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183THE CASE OF OSCAR SLATER. Hokitika Guardian, 27 January 1928, Page 4
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