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The Court met at Ten o'clock.

Judge Presiding— LORD GUTHRIE.

Counsel for the Crown— THE LORD ADVOCATE (Mr. Alexander Ure, K.C.). Mr. T.B. MORISON, K.C., and Mr. W. LYON MACKENZIE, Advocates-Depute

Agent— Mr. W.S. HALDANE, W.S., Edinburgh.

Counsel for the Panel— Mr. A.L. M'CLURE, K.C., and Mr. JOHN MAIR, Advocate.

Agent— Mr. EWING SPEIRS, of Messrs. Joseph Shaughnessy & Sons, Solicitors, Glasgow.

The panel was placed at the bar, charged with the crime of murder, as set forth in the following indictment against him, at the instance of His Majesty's Advocate:—

OSCAR SLATER, sometime residing at 69 Saint George's Road, Glasgow, and presently a prisoner in the prison of Glasgow, you are indicted at the instance of the Right Honourable ALEXANDER URE, His Majesty's Advocate, and the charge against you is that you did, on 21st December, 1908, in Marion Gilchrist's house, at No. 15 Queen's Terrace, West Princes Street, Glasgow, assault the said Marion Gilchrist, and did beat her with a hammer or other blunt instrument, and fracture her skull, and did murder her.

T.B. MORISON, A.D.