STRANGE ROMANCE
, NEGRESS TO MARRY.
(United. Press Association—By Electric
Telegraph.—Copyright:)
LONDON, Nov. 27
..'Oscar Slater (who was last year exonerated of the crime of murder, abater serving 18 years’ imprisonment after-wrongful conviction of murdering .in the Kelvin Grove district of Glasgow) is to marry a negiSeSj3. ; j. -9•> j. ",
Slater told the Daily Mail’s Glasgow correspondent that he is marryincr a full-blooded negress in April. He said: “My fiancee was born in Basutoland,' where' her parents are wealthy planters. I first met her .in Paris 20 years- ago. She was then twenty years of age and had just finished her education. We corresponded throughout my long years at Peterhead Gaol, where once she came to see me. Her fdijth in me . was a tremendous comfort, AVe again met in Glasgow, when J wp.s released, and we became engage#, and.' after the marriage I am going to my wife's home to take up planting..
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Hokitika Guardian, 28 November 1929, Page 5
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