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Oscar Slater
Oscar Joseph Slater (8 January 1872 – 31 January 1948) was a victim of a Scottish miscarriage of justice. He was born Oscar Leschziner in Oppeln, Upper Silesia, Germany to a Jewish family. Around 1893, to evade military service, he moved to London, where he worked as a bookmaker using various names, including ''Anderson'', before settling on ''Slater'' for official purposes. He was prosecuted for malicious wounding in 1896 and assault in 1897 but was acquitted in both cases.〔Leslie William Blake, 'Slater, Oscar Joseph (1872–1948)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004〕
In 1899 he moved to Edinburgh and by 1901 was living in Glasgow. He claimed to be a gymnastics instructor, a dentist, and a dealer in precious stones but was known to police as a pimp〔The Times, ''Glasgow Murder Trial'' 6 May 1909〕 and gangster who associated with thieves, burglars, and receivers of stolen goods.〔
==Marion Gilchrist==
In December 1908 Marion Gilchrist, a spinster aged 83 years, was beaten to death in a robbery at West Princes Street, Glasgow, after her maid had popped out for ten minutes.〔The Times, ''The Case Of Oscar Slater. Sir Herbert Stephen And The Evidence,'' 19 September 1912〕 Although she had jewellery worth £3,000 (''2015: £'') hidden in her wardrobe,〔The Times, "The Case of Oscar Slater," 21 August 1912〕 the robber was disturbed by a neighbour〔 and took only a brooch. Slater had left for New York five days after the murder and came under suspicion as, before the murder, a caller to Gilchrist's house had been looking for someone called "Anderson", and Slater had previously been seen trying to sell a pawn ticket for a brooch.〔
The police soon realised that the pawn ticket was a false lead but still applied for Slater's extradition. Slater was advised that the application would probably fail but, in any case, decided to return voluntarily to Scotland.〔
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