MR OSCAR SLATER

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20834, 28 September 1929, Page 13

MR OSCAR SLATER

AN ALLEGED DEBT. CLAIM BY CONAN DOYLE. LONDON, September 17. Mr Oscar Slater—from whom Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is endeavouring to recover £250 allegedly advanced toward the expenses of the appeal which resulted in the quashing of the conviction against Sinter for the murder of a woman in Glasgow in 1008, Slater obtaining £OOOO compensation—is residing at a good hotel. Slater offered an interviewer a cigar from an expensive -old-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 ho intends to live to celebrate his hundredth birthday. “ B I s beneath his dignity,” Slater declared, “to answer abuse hy 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 huge cigar, indeed!” said Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, when ho read the description. ‘‘ It is easy to smoke cigars if you receive thousands of pounds. But I am going to have my money.”