OSCAR SLATER

Evening Star, Issue 19712, 12 November 1927, Page 5

OSCAR SLATER

HIS CASE REVIVED RELEASE SOUGHT SIR CONAN DOYLE’S ALLEGATIONS. Press Association--By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, November 11. (Received November 12, at 1.30 a.m.) A section of tho Press here and many prominent men have Jong sought tho release of Oscar Slater. The German Foreign Office points out that it cannot take up Slater’s case till lie applies for repatriation. He forfeited his German citizenship by going to live in Scotland to- avoid conscription.

‘‘Slater’s release is only the beginning of things,” says Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who has fought ceaselessly for Slater’s vindication. He adds: “Slater is now an old, broken man, and uo effort must be spared to ensure that his sufferings are productive of some good. This is the greatest police scandal of modern times. It is evident that the judicial authorities made the gravest of mistakes. Anyone who happened' to be walking the Glasgow streets at the same time ar Slater might'have been found guilty,” Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is;now framing a petition to Parliament for a full inquiry into Slater’s arrest and trial, urging that ho should be compensated The revival of the case is the result of a message Slater sent to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle written on a piece of paper wrapped in glazed paper and hidden in. the hollow tooth of a prisoner discharged from Peterhead Gaol in 1925.