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k p, CHANGES L. GARSIDE.
. ta uen much ingenuity, a great
I f time and more moral cour
tltan bysander John Appleton
K .. .sassed to assemble together
K for the great reform
B ~.l t „ n which he had engaged.
B "ith, he did not know till
■ h snubbed by a galaxy of
B headed clerks from a self-
B man into a. worm of the
B .he first material he must
I ( H •ardboard.
B . llo t know if it were sold by
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B H inrriment was shown by the
B ..f cold, blond-headed clerks
B when asked.
■ is greater humiliation when
| , tiie silks to work it with,
■ n ,,t daring further repression, he
■ • i> his purchases home without
u pa-, cardboard stamped.
■ m.t know if he should go to
s store to get that sort of
~r to a foundry. Rather
h,, would mark out the let
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in his den. lie laboriously
a needle back and forth and
I to the fat pillow cushions
,• opposite him.
. ago." be said, "it was Pic-
Europe. Then it was the better
Writ' - I-’riend. The next day it was
p Us, ~f (trover Cleveland, though
i a Democrat in the family.
v ~p tin installment plan!
. ■ -■ ti egg beater in the kitch-
■ beat ten eggs at once; a
. , u , .z< that is never used and
. . H „. vine trimmer, though there
n ,,, «;is an apartment bouse with a
: , ii,e growing in it.
■\\. iiaien't a bicycle in the family
hi,t ' has bought a bicycle pump.
Til( il'. n are grown, but she yes
... bought a patent nursing bottle
~ aiso an adjustable bird cage,
th ,gii «o don't own a bird. All on
th, installment plan.”
I.\ sander John pointed with his
at the walls. "Look at these
mottoes! She hangs them there for
nr She says they will lift me from my
maa riallstic plane!
“If mottoes help, she needs one, and j
I hav made this to hang in her room." j
He bit off the thread, and proudly
hold before the gaze of the pillow cush
ion ladles a piece of cardboard on
which had been worked in purple and
'•son and pale blue (a man’s idea ot
harmony in colors) these words:
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| “THE CASE OF OSCAR SLATER" Sherlock Holmes in Real Life By SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE |
TODAY’S INSTALLMENT.
A correspondenpe, which was produced,
showed the arrangements which had been
made, long before the crime, for his emi
gration. though it should be added that
the actual determination of the date and
taking of the ticket were subsequent to
the tragedy.
This hurrying-up of the departure cer-
tainly deserves some scrutiny. Accord
ing to the evidence of his mistress and
of the servant, Slater had received two
letters on the morning of December 21.
Neither of these was produced at the
trial. One was said to be from a Mr.
Rogers, a friend of Slater's in London,
' telling him that Slater's wife was both
ering him for money. The second was
said to be from one Devoto, a former
■ partner of Slater's, asking him to join
him in San Francisco.
Even if the letters had been destroyed,
•j.e would imagine that these statements
- to the letters could be disproved or
orroborated by either rhe crown or the
■ defense. They are of considerable im
portance, as giving the alleged reasons
why Slater hurried up a departure which
had been previously announced as for
JanuaA 1 can not find, however, that
in thejaetual trial anything definite was |
ascertained upon the matter.
Another point had already been scored
against the prosecution in that the seven
trunks, which contained the whole effects
of the prisoner, yielded nothing of real
importance. There were a felt hat and
two cloth ones, but none which corre
sponded with the Donegal of the original
description. A light colored water-proof
coat was among the outfit.
If the weapon with which the deed was
done was carried off in the pocket of the
assassin's overcoat—and it is difficult to
say how else he could have carried it—
then the pocket must, one would suppose,
be crusted with blood, since the crime was
a most sanguinary one. No such marks
were discovered, nor were the police for
tunate as to the weapon. It is true that
' a hammer was found in the trunk, but
it was clearly shown to have been pur
chased in one of those cheap half-crown
sets of tools which are tied upon a card,
was an extremely light and fragile in
strument, and utterly incapable in the
eyes of common sense of inflicting those
terrific injuries which had shattered the
old lady's skull.
It was said by the prosecution to bear
some marks of having been scraped or
cleaned, but this was vigorously denied
by the defense, and the police do not
appear to have pushed the matter to the
obvious test of removing the metal work,
when they must, had this been indeed
the W'eapon, have certainly found some
soakage of blood into the wood under the
edges of the iron cheeks or head.
But a glance at this puny weapon
would convince an impartial person that
any task beyond fixing a tin tack or
cracking a small bit of coal would be
above its strength. It may fairly be said
that before the trial had begun the three
important points of the pawned jewel,
the supposed flight and the evidence from
clothing and weapon had each either
broken down complete!) or become ex
ceedingly attenuated.
Let us see now what there was upon
the other side. The evidence for the pros
ecution really resolved itself into two sets
of witnesses for identification. The first
set were those who had actually seen
the murderer, and included Adams. Helen
Lambie and the girl Barrowman.
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The second set consisted of twelve peo
ple who had. at various dates, seen a
man frequenting the street in which Miss
Gilchrist lived and loitering in a suspi
cious manner before the house. All of
these, some with confidence, but most
of them with reserve, were prepared to
identify the prisoner with this unknown
man.
What the police never could produce,
however, was the essential thing, and
that was the least connecting ling between
Slater and Miss Gilchrist, or any expla
nation how a foreigner in Glasgow could
ever know of the existence, to say noth
ing of the wealth, of a retired old lady,
who had few acquaintances and seldom
left her guarded fiat.
It is notorious that nothing is more
tricky than evidence of identification. In
the Beck case there were, if I remember
! right, some ten witnesses who had seen
the real criminal under normal circum
stances. and yet they were all prepared
to swear to the wrong man. In the case
of Oscar Slater, the first three witnesses
saw their man under conditions of ex
citement, while the second group saw the
loiterer in the street under various lights,
and in a'fashion which was always more
or less casual It is right, therefore,
that in assigning due w’elght to this evi
dence, one should examine it with some
care. We shall first take the three peo
ple who actually saw the murderer.
There seems to have been some dis
crepancy between them from the first,
since, as has already been pointed out,
the description published from the data
of Adams and lambie was modified after
Barrowman had given her information.
Adams and Lambie said:
“A man between 25 and 30 years of age
5 feet 8 or 9 inches in height, slim built,
dark hair, clean*shaven, dressed in light
gray overcoat and dark cloth cap."
After the collaboration with Barrow
man. the description became:
"Twenty-eight or thirty years of age;
tall and thin, clean shaven, his nose
slightly turned to one side. Wore one
of the popular round tweed hats known as
Donegal hats, and a fawn-colored over
coat, which might have been a water
proof; also dark trousers and brown
boots.”
Apart from the additions in the second
inscription, there are. it will be observed,
two actual d’scropancies in the shape of
the hat and tie color of the coat
As to how far either of these descrip
tions tallies with Slater it may be stated
here that the accused was 37 years of age:
that he was above the medium height:
that his nose was not twisted, but was *
depressed at end. as if it had at some
lime been broken, and finally that eight
witnesses were called upon to prove that,
on the dale of the murder, the accused
wore a short but noticeable mustache.
I have before me a verbatim stenograph
ic report i f the proceedings in New York
and also in Edinburgh, furnished by the
kindness of Slmughnesry & Co . solicitors,
of Glasgow, who ate still contending for
the interests of their unfortunate client.
I will here compare the terms of that
identification in the two courts:
HELE:< LAMBIE. NEW YORK. .JAN
ITA RY 2«, 1909.
Q. "Do you see the man here you saw
there'."'
A. "One is very suspicious, if any
thing "
"Describe him "
A. "The clothes be had on that night
he hasn't got on today—but his face I
could not tell 1 never saw ills face."
(Having described c peculiarity' of walk,
she was asked):
Q. “Is that man in the room?"
A. "Yes. he Is sit,"
Q. "Point him cut '
A “1 would like to sa ■
\fter some pressur- and uitminent she
panted lo -later 'Aho lad been led past
he.- in .1 e < urtidor b( tween Iwo officers,
when bo*l> she and Bairowmuii hud ex
claimed: "That is t’ e tcan," or "I could
needy swear that Is >rr man >
Q, "Didn top say you did not see
Ik*. Il HI W 111 <• ’"
A "Neither I did. I saw the w’alk.”
The reader must bear in mind that
Lambie’s only chance of seeing the man’s
walk was in the four steps or so down
the passage It was ’.ever at any time
shown that there was any marked pecu
liarity about Slater's wall;
Now take Helen Lambie’s identification
in Edinburgh. May 9, 19C9:
Q. “How did you identify him in
America?"
A. "By his walk and height, his dark
hair and the side of his face?'
Q. “You w’ere not quite sure of him
at first in America?"
A. "Yes, I was quite sure."
Q. "Why did you say you were only
suspicious?”
A. "It was a mistake."
Q. "What did you mean in America
by saying that you never saw his face,
if. in point of fact, you did see it so
as to help you to recognize it? What did
you mean?”
A. "Nettling .”
On further cross-examination she de
clared that w’hen she said that she had
never seen the man's face she meant
that she had never seen the "broad of
It,” but had seen it sideways.
UNCERTAIN WITNESSES.
Here it will be observed that Helen
Lambie’s evidence had greatly stiffened
during the three months between the New’
York and the Edinburgh proceedings, in so
aggressively positive a frame of mind was
she on the latter occasion that, on being
shown Slater’s overcoat and asked if it
resembled the murderer's, she answered
twice over: "That is the coat,” although
it had not yet been unrolled, and though
it was not light gray , which was the col
or of her own original description.
It should not be forgotten in dealing
with the evidence of Lambie and Adams
that they are utterly disagreed as to so
easily fix a thing as their own proceedings
after swearing that Lambie walked to
nearly the end of the hall, and Lambie
that she remained upon the door mat.
Without deciding which was right, it is
clear that the incident must shake one’s
confidence in one or other of them as a
witness.
In the case of Adams the evidence was
’ given with moderation, and was substan
tially the same in America and Scotland.
"1 couldn’t say positively. Tills man
(indicating Slater) is not at all unlike
him.'
Q. "Did you notice a crooked nose?"
A. "No."
y. "Anything remarkable about his
, walk?"
| A. "No."
Q. “You don't swear this Is the man
you saw?”
A “No. sir Hr resembles ihe man.
that is all I can say."
In replj to the same general questions
in Edinburgh, he said:
“I would not like to swear he is the
man. I am a little near-sighted. He re
sembles the man closely.”
Barrowman. the girl of 15. had met the
man presumed to be the murderer in the
street, and taken one passing glance at
him under a gas lamp on a wet De
cember’s night difficult circumstances
for an identification. She used these
words in New York:
“That man Here is something like
him.” which she afterward amended to
“very like him." She admitted that a pic
ture of the man she was expected to
identify had been shown to her before
she came into the court.
Her one point by which she claimed
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to recognize the man was the crooked
nose. This crooked nose was not much
i more apparent to others than the pecul
iarity of walk which so greatly Impressed
i Helen Lambie that, after seeing half a
dozen steps of it, she could identify it
with confidence. In Edinburgh Barrow
man. like Lambie. was very much more
1 certain than in New York. The further
they got from the event, the easier ap
-1 parently did recognition become. "Yes.
that is the man who knocked against me
that night,” she said.
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