OSCAR SLATER

Greymouth Evening Star, 28 September 1929, Page 2

OSCAR SLATER

CLAIM BY CONAN DOYLE. LONDON, September 17. ’ Mr Oscar Slater —from whom Sir ’ Arthur Conan Doyle is endeavouring to recover £250, allegedly, advanced ■ towards the expenses of the appeal which resulted in the quashing of the ' conviction against Slater for the mur- • der of a woman in Glasgow in 1908, Slater obtaining £6OOO compensation 1 —is residing at a good hotel. Slater offered an interveiwer a cigar from an expensive gold-bound case, and drank an appetiser before indulging in an excellent luncheon. He is generally enjoying life. He bathes, golfs and dances, and is a regular theatre-goer. He says that he intends to live to celebrate his hundredth birthday. “It is beneath my dignity,” Slater declared, “to answer abuse by abuse —Sir Arthur Conan Doyle had referred to him as an ungrateful dog—l won’t even call Sir Conan Doyle a money-seeker and notoriety-hunter.” “Smoking a large cigar, indeed!” said Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, when he read the description. “It is easy to smoke cigars if youjeceive thousands of pounds. But I am going to have I my money.” I