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<v Speaker 1>Unsolved mysteries. Out of deference to people who may still

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<v Speaker 1>be living. Character names in some of these unsolved mysteries

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<v Speaker 1>have been changed. The fact that a man may be arrested, tried, convicted,

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<v Speaker 1>and sentenced for the crime of murder does not, always,

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<v Speaker 1>at least to everyone's satisfaction, mean the solution of a

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<v Speaker 1>murder mystery. Particularly so is this the case in the

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<v Speaker 1>trial of Oscar Slater. And to those lovers of the

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<v Speaker 1>great character Sherlock Holmes, it must be of interest to

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<v Speaker 1>know that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle spent seventeen years of

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<v Speaker 1>his life trying to prove that Oscar Slater did not

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<v Speaker 1>commit murder order that to this day is one of

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<v Speaker 1>scotland Yards unsolved mysteries. The scene is Glasgow, Scotland, the

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<v Speaker 1>night of December twenty first, thick, soot laden fog swirls

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<v Speaker 1>along the dimly lighted streets, a fog so thick that

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<v Speaker 1>it deadens even that roar of traffic which rises perpetually

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<v Speaker 1>from Glasgow's teaming thoroughfares. Outside fifteen Queen's Terrace, a street

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<v Speaker 1>lamp throws a gray yellow circle on the damp pavement,

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<v Speaker 1>but inside number fifteen Queen's Terrace, an apartment house.

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<v Speaker 2>What the deuce is? That sounds as if it came

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<v Speaker 2>from miss Gilchrist.

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<v Speaker 3>But miss Gilchriss could hardly making that noise.

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<v Speaker 2>The servant Lamby could.

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<v Speaker 4>I'm going up there. I don't like it. I'm mister

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<v Speaker 4>Adam behaving. Lambie. You weren't, by any chance chopping wood

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<v Speaker 4>or something upstairs?

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<v Speaker 5>Don't know me to Adam, i'ming down to the corner

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<v Speaker 5>for the evening piper.

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<v Speaker 2>Who's up there coming out of missus Gilchrist's apartment by?

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<v Speaker 6>Don't know.

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<v Speaker 7>I never saw him before.

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<v Speaker 4>Let's go up there. I don't like a look of things.

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<v Speaker 4>The doors open and I.

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<v Speaker 2>Left it closed. I don't see ascus in the living room.

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<v Speaker 4>Oh what is it?

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<v Speaker 6>How? What is it?

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<v Speaker 4>Look behind the dining table?

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<v Speaker 6>Is she deep?

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<v Speaker 4>Yes?

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<v Speaker 3>That man the man we saw heib room, stop him,

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<v Speaker 3>stop him, Please stop that man.

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<v Speaker 1>But the man had gone all trace of him swallowed

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<v Speaker 1>up in the rolling bank of fog. Fifteen minutes later,

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<v Speaker 1>the police, the examining doctor for the Crown, and the

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<v Speaker 1>detective inspector are on the scene of the crime. How's ardent, Yes, sir?

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<v Speaker 3>Have the boys check up every boarding house hotel everything

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<v Speaker 3>and find out every single person who has checked out

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<v Speaker 3>in the past hour and from now on. Yes, anything else.

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<v Speaker 3>Check steamship passengers. Of course, pawn brokers keep a lookout

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<v Speaker 3>for pieces of jewelry as such as you see in

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<v Speaker 3>that photograph on the piano, that photograph of missus Giltress

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<v Speaker 3>At once, Sir h Finish doctor.

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<v Speaker 4>His inspector, how did the murderer get in here? Both

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<v Speaker 4>doors can only have been opened from the inside.

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<v Speaker 3>Let the newspaper's work got out. I'm a plice inspector.

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<v Speaker 3>All I want is the murderer.

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<v Speaker 1>Twenty four hours later, in the Glasgow Police headquarters, the

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<v Speaker 1>detective inspector sits behind the table going through the massive

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<v Speaker 1>information unearthed by his department. A sergeant of police burst

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<v Speaker 1>excitedly into the room, a piece of brown wrapping paper

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<v Speaker 1>in one hand, a ship's sailing and passenger list in

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<v Speaker 1>the other.

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<v Speaker 2>Inspector, look here, what is it?

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<v Speaker 5>Sergeant found this wrapping paper in a flat vacated late

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<v Speaker 5>last night.

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<v Speaker 2>Yes, what is it?

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<v Speaker 5>It's from a jeweler, evidently used to wrap a watch

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<v Speaker 5>or something about that size. Name on the label Oscar Sleeper.

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<v Speaker 4>Yes, go on slight build.

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<v Speaker 5>Nervous, foreign looking fits a description of the murderer given

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<v Speaker 5>by Lambi. Then this the shipping list is the Empress

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<v Speaker 5>of Calcutta third class passage book. Next day, the day

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<v Speaker 5>following the mud two persons Otto Sando and wife Oscar Slater.

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<v Speaker 4>Otto Sando A good work, Sergeant.

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<v Speaker 3>I'll cable the United States and have the New York

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<v Speaker 3>Police hold mister Otto Sando for identification.

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<v Speaker 1>The New York Police arrested Otto Sando, who turned out

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<v Speaker 1>to be Oscar Slater. A month later, the prisoner were

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<v Speaker 1>shipped back to Scotland, and in May, in the High

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<v Speaker 1>Court of Scotland, Oscar Slater was tried before my Lord Guthrie.

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<v Speaker 4>The witness Lamming of the stand please him, dearest one. Yes,

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<v Speaker 4>Maud on the night of the murder, you saw the

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<v Speaker 4>murder leave Miss gulphus room.

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<v Speaker 2>They please your Lordship. I protest the witness is not

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<v Speaker 2>covenant to judge whether or not the person seen leaving

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<v Speaker 2>the murdered woman drew me's or was the murderer.

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<v Speaker 4>I'll put the question in this manner. You would recognize

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<v Speaker 4>the person you saw leaving Miss Gulphus's room. Yes, Milord,

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<v Speaker 4>is he in the course, he is Lord, he is

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<v Speaker 4>a prisoner.

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<v Speaker 6>That is all, Learned Counsel for the defense may question

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<v Speaker 6>the witness on behalf of the prisoner. Thank him a lord,

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<v Speaker 6>lamb me. I wish you'd have been very careful in

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<v Speaker 6>your answers.

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<v Speaker 2>You say that the prisoner at bar is the man

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<v Speaker 2>you saw leaving miss Gilchrist's flat. Yes, how do you

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<v Speaker 2>recognize him by his features?

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<v Speaker 4>Nothing else?

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<v Speaker 2>I didn't understand In New York you identified the prisoner

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<v Speaker 2>by his peculiar walk. I'm reading from your deposition taken

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<v Speaker 2>at that time. I recognized the prisoner by the peculiar walk.

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<v Speaker 2>I did not see his features. I did not see

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<v Speaker 2>his speech. And your identification today is more clear than

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<v Speaker 2>of one month ago.

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<v Speaker 6>That is all.

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<v Speaker 4>You may stand down, mister Adams, for the stand. You

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<v Speaker 4>understand that the oath taken yesterday is still binding upon you. Yes, Belord,

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<v Speaker 4>you saw the man. The Crown contends what the murderer

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<v Speaker 4>leaving missus giltress flat?

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<v Speaker 3>Yes?

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<v Speaker 4>Below is he in court?

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<v Speaker 2>Yes?

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<v Speaker 4>Below he is the prisoner.

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<v Speaker 6>That is all your witness.

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<v Speaker 4>Counsel for the defense, Adams learned.

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<v Speaker 2>Counsel for the Crown has asked you, definitely if the

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<v Speaker 2>prisoner at bar is the man you saw leaving Miss Gilchrist.

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<v Speaker 2>Do you swear positively and absolutely that he is the man?

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<v Speaker 6>I am a little near sired, my lord, I should

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<v Speaker 6>not care to swear at this distance.

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<v Speaker 2>Go to the prisoner, look him in the face. He

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<v Speaker 2>is on trial for his life. Much depends upon your answer.

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<v Speaker 2>Will you swear that that is the man?

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<v Speaker 4>My lord, to the best of my belief, this is

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<v Speaker 4>the man. Defense thanks the witness for his fair mindedness.

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<v Speaker 4>He may stand down the court. The Crown rests its

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<v Speaker 4>case upon the avidence presented.

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<v Speaker 6>Then learned counsel for the Crown may address the jury.

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<v Speaker 4>I thank his Lordship. You've heard these witnesses swear that

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<v Speaker 4>the prisoner, Oscar Slater is the man seen leaving Miss

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<v Speaker 4>Gilchris's flat. I come next to the prisoner's guilty flight,

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<v Speaker 4>how guilty it was. An honest man does not engage

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<v Speaker 4>passage on a vessel in an assumed name, not after

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<v Speaker 4>the hue and cry has been raised about a brutal murder.

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<v Speaker 4>It is always a painful duty to plead with a

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<v Speaker 4>jury to condemn a man to death. But in this case,

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<v Speaker 4>I say to you with.

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<v Speaker 2>Every fiber of my being that, as counsel for the defense,

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<v Speaker 2>I say that the Crown is not even attempted to

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<v Speaker 2>show how the prisoner attained entrance to Miss Gilchrist's flat.

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<v Speaker 2>The daughter of the apartment house was locked with a

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<v Speaker 2>spring lock. The prisoner had not any means of obtaining

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<v Speaker 2>a key. Not only that, but the prisoner, supposing that

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<v Speaker 2>he had obtained entrance to the apartment house, had no

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<v Speaker 2>means of entering Miss Gilchrist's flat unless she herself admitted him.

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<v Speaker 2>And gentlemen of the jury, Miss Gilchrist was found lying

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<v Speaker 2>before the hearth in the dining room. She would have

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<v Speaker 2>screamed long ere that had she been afraid. And I

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<v Speaker 2>say to you, gentlemen of the jury, that that one

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<v Speaker 2>fact alone plays the prisoner because the murderer, gentlemen, what's

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<v Speaker 2>someone known to Miss Gilchrist? Since she never would have

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<v Speaker 2>admitted the murderer without protest, gentlemen, I have finished the

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<v Speaker 2>life of a man. A human being is in your hands.

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<v Speaker 6>The jury may retire to consider their verdict.

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<v Speaker 4>On such evidence.

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<v Speaker 1>Then did the jury retire to consider a verdict? Both

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<v Speaker 1>the police and the prosecution completely ignored the difficulty of

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<v Speaker 1>the murderer's access to the murdered woman's apartment. But the

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<v Speaker 1>jury was absent just one hour and ten minutes. And

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<v Speaker 1>now they are again in the jury box.

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<v Speaker 6>Gentlemen of the jury, have you reached a verdict?

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<v Speaker 3>We'll have maraud, We'll find the prisoner has charged guilty.

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<v Speaker 4>My lord, may I see one verd?

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<v Speaker 2>Will you allow me to speak?

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<v Speaker 6>I think larded counsel for the defense should instruct his client,

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<v Speaker 6>but it him since I shall allow him to talk.

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<v Speaker 2>My lord, what shall I say?

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<v Speaker 1>O murther a, poor people, I come of mine own freeville,

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<v Speaker 1>from America. I come to defend my right.

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<v Speaker 7>I know nothing about it. I come from America.

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<v Speaker 2>I know nothing about this murder.

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<v Speaker 6>Prisoner Taba, you have been found guilty of murder. You

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<v Speaker 6>will be taken from this court room to the place

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<v Speaker 6>whence you came, and thence to a place of lawful execution,

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<v Speaker 6>where you will be hanged by the neck till you

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<v Speaker 6>be dead, dead, dead, and may God have mercy on

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<v Speaker 6>your soul.

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<v Speaker 1>But Oscar Slater did not hang. People who saw in

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<v Speaker 1>the case a mystery not to be solved by the

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<v Speaker 1>mere bringing in of a verdict of guilty. Appealed to

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<v Speaker 1>the Home Secretary and the prisoner's sentence was commuted to

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<v Speaker 1>life imprisonment. Oscar Slater served seventeen.

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<v Speaker 4>Years in prison.

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<v Speaker 1>To day, he is free, absolved of the crime, and

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<v Speaker 1>the British Government, in recognition of the miscarriage of justice,

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<v Speaker 1>awarded him a considerable sum of money. In just a moment,

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<v Speaker 1>you will hear a solution to the trial of Oscar Slater.

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<v Speaker 7>The attempted to.

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<v Speaker 1>Attempt ladies and gentlemen. Inasmuch as any solution must of

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<v Speaker 1>necessity be supposition, liberties of time, place and characters have

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<v Speaker 1>been taken. In this solution for which you have been waiting.

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<v Speaker 1>We return you to the High Court of Scotland, where

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<v Speaker 1>my Lord Guthrie, presiding at the trial of Oscar Slater,

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<v Speaker 1>sums up the evidence before the jury. In his Lordship's

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<v Speaker 1>summing up lies the solution as to how the murderer

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<v Speaker 1>gained access to Miss Gilchrist's home.

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<v Speaker 4>Farthing.

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<v Speaker 6>The court learned counsel for the Defense has no other

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<v Speaker 6>motion to make before the bench addresses the jury.

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<v Speaker 4>No Malard, counsel for the Crown, has.

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<v Speaker 6>No additional evidence. Normal As presiding judge in this case,

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<v Speaker 6>I do not feel that it is necessary to dwell

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<v Speaker 6>upon the seriousness of the crime or the importance of

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<v Speaker 6>your verdict. A learned counsel for the defense has made

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<v Speaker 6>an issue with the fact that Oscar Slater could not

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<v Speaker 6>gain access to the murdered woman's home. But gentlemen, I

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<v Speaker 6>would be delinquent in my duty if I did not

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<v Speaker 6>point out to you that that was not the impossibility

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<v Speaker 6>it seems. In the first place, it must be borne

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<v Speaker 6>in mind that it was not a key which was

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<v Speaker 6>required to gain admittance to Miss Gilchrist's house, that is,

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<v Speaker 6>to open the front door. There was a speaking tube

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<v Speaker 6>arrangement whereby the caller could speak to the inhabitant of

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<v Speaker 6>any particular apartment. The occupant of the apartment, satisfied that

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<v Speaker 6>he or she wished to see the caller, would then

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<v Speaker 6>pull a release which opened the catch on the front door.

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<v Speaker 6>This was the defense point when they maintained that the

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<v Speaker 6>murderer must have been known to Miss Gilchrist in order

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<v Speaker 6>to have gained the mittens. A study of human failures, though,

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<v Speaker 6>will show that this does not necessarily apply. Undoubtedly, land

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<v Speaker 6>be the maid, going as she did each night for

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<v Speaker 6>an evening paper, would upon occasion forget her latch key,

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<v Speaker 6>What then would she do? She would ring the bell,

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<v Speaker 6>tell Miss Gilchrist through the speaking tube arrangement that she

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<v Speaker 6>had forgotten her key, and Miss Gilchrist would then release

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<v Speaker 6>the door catch. After this had occurred many times, as

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<v Speaker 6>it must have over a period of years, Miss Gilchrist would,

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<v Speaker 6>if the bell were rung immediately after Lamby's departure, released

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<v Speaker 6>the door catch without question. This, then, was what the

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<v Speaker 6>murderer was waiting for. The murderer undoubted he had watched

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<v Speaker 6>the inhabitants for a period of time, and one night,

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<v Speaker 6>a night of the murder, Lamby the maid left to

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<v Speaker 6>get the evening paper. The murderers kept quickly to the

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<v Speaker 6>door and rang the bell. Miss Kilchrist, thinking that once

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<v Speaker 6>against Lamby had forgotten her key, would release the catch,

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<v Speaker 6>leave the apartment door open, The murderer would enter, and

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<v Speaker 6>at a few moments everything would be over

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<v Speaker 1>And sow a judge on the bench solved the real

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<v Speaker 1>mystery as to how Miss Guiltrist was murdered, but to

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<v Speaker 1>this day no one knows who the actual murderer was,

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<v Speaker 1>and to the Glasgow Police, the famous Oscar slayer case

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<v Speaker 1>is still an unsolved mystery.