MR OSCAR SLATER

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 72, Issue 233, 1 October 1929, Page 11

MR OSCAR SLATER

AN ALLEGED DEBT CLAIM BY CONAN DOYLE Mr Oscar Slater —from whom Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is endeavouring to recover £250 allegedly advanced toward the expenses of the appeal wnicn resulted in the quashing of the conviction against Slater for the murder of a woman in Glasgow in 1908, Slater obtaining £6OOO compensation —is residing at a good hotel. Slater offered an interviewer a cigar from an expensive gold-bound case, and drank an appetiser before indulging in an excellent luncheon. He is generally enjoying life. Ho bathes, golfs and dances, and is a regular theatre-goer. He says that he intends to celeDrate his hundredth birthday. “It is beneath my dignity,” Slater declared, “to answer abuse by abuse— Sir Arthur Conaji Doyle had referred to him as an ungrateful dog—l won’t even call Sir Conan Doyle a moneyseeker 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 you receive tnousands of pounds. But I am going to have my money. ’ ’ .