The Square Mile of Murder Revisited

This title takes another look at the trials of Oscar Slater, Jessie McLachlan, Edward William Pritchard and Madeleine Smith. Slater's trial ended up in him being wrongly convicted of the murder of Marion Gilchrist in her west end home in 1908. The case has become the most famous miscarriage of justice in Scottish legal history and he was only 2 days from being hanged when he was reprieved. After spending nearly 20 years in prison, he was released and attended the first case in the newly establis