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British Government Compensates Oscar Slater

August 9, 1928
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(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Oscar Slater vindicated of the charge of having murdered an aged Glasgow woman for which he served eighteen years in Peterhead prison before he was released, has accepted the offer of the British government to compensate him for his wrongful conviction.

He will receive the amount of £6,000 in compensation.

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