“AN UNGRATEFUL DOG.”

Shannon News, 27 September 1929, Page 3

“AN UNGRATEFUL DOG.”

SLATES SLATED. (Published in the “Daily Mail.”) LONDON, Sept. 19th. 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 1908, for the murder of a woman, and whowas released last year after a re-trial.

Slater was awarded £6OOO compensation, largely owing to Sir Conan Doyle’s campaign. • ( “Slater wasn’t a murderer, but he is an ungrateful dog,” stated Sir Conan Doyle. “Before tlie trials could be re-opened, I had tc guarantee £IOOO for costs. I raised £7OO among Jews, leaving me liable for £3OO. When Slatr er 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 do so. ”

Slater, 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 mo for the Scottish press, for which lie was paid £4OO, I was asked to pay £250 for a book about me, published by the Psychic Press. - I did not ask them to publish the book, ou which they lost money.”

“A SHOCKING ENDING.”

(Sun Special.) LONDON, Sept. 20.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the famous novelist anc] spiritualist, 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 400 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,” lie added, ‘‘ to what might have been a noble story. I am determined to try to get £250 out of Slater, owing to the principle 'involved.”