SLATER CASE ECHO.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 254, 25 September 1929, Page 8

SLATER CASE ECHO.

SIR CONAN DOYLE’S CLAIM

Sir A. Conan Doyle, the famous novelist and spiritualist, is seeking to recover £250 from Oscar Slater, who was sentenced to death in Glasgow in 1903 for the murder of a woman, and who was released last year after a reSlater was awarded £6OOO compensation, largely owing to Sir Conan Doyle s campaign. , , , “Slater wasn’t a murderer, but he is ungrateful,” stated Sir Conan Doyle. “Before the trial could be reopened, 1 had to guarantee £IOOO for costs. I raised £7OO among Jews, leaving me liable for £3OO. When Slater received £6OOO compensation, and a lot of money from newspapers, I asked him to pay £3OO. but with incredible and monstrous ingratitude, he refused to °sfater, in an interview, complained that Sir’Conan Doyle had insulted him. “I was a baby when I came out of prison, and did not know how much money I owed,” he said. “Sir Conan Doyle made money out of me. He wrote articles about me for the Scot* tish press, for which he was paid £4OO. I was asked to pay £250 for a book about me, published by the Psvchic Press. I did not ask them to publish the book, on which they lost money.” “A SHOCKING ENDING.” Sir Arthur Conan Doyle indignantly denies Mr Oscar Slater’s allegation that he was asked to defray the loss of a book about him published by the Psychic Press, and that he had received payment for articles in the Scottish press. Sir Conan Doyle said that he would be glad if Mr Slater would publish the correspondence, as he had threatened to do. “It is a shocking ending,” he added, “to what might have been a noble story. lam determined to try to get £250 out of Slater, owing to the principle involved.”-