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Book The Case of Oscar Slater

Download or read book The Case of Oscar Slater written by Arthur Conan Doyle and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Case of Oscar Slater

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  • Author : Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Publisher : Legare Street Press
  • Release : 2022-10-26
  • ISBN : 9781015539198
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Case of Oscar Slater written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book Oscar Slater

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  • Author : Thomas Toughill
  • Publisher : The History Press
  • Release : 2012-01-31
  • ISBN : 0752482688
  • Pages : 293 pages

Download or read book Oscar Slater written by Thomas Toughill and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2012-01-31 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1909, Oscar Slater, a German Jew, was convicted and sentenced to death for the brutal murder of Marion Gilchrist, an elderly Glasweigan spinster. His trial is known to have been one of the most scandalous miscarriages of justice in the annals of legal history. This book is provides an account of this infamous case.

Book Conan Doyle for the Defense

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  • Author : Margalit Fox
  • Publisher : Random House
  • Release : 2018-06-26
  • ISBN : 0399589465
  • Pages : 352 pages

Download or read book Conan Doyle for the Defense written by Margalit Fox and published by Random House. This book was released on 2018-06-26 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A wonderfully vivid portrait of the man behind Sherlock Holmes . . . Like all the best historical true crime books, it’s about so much more than crime.”—Tana French, author of In the Woods A sensational Edwardian murder. A scandalous wrongful conviction. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to the rescue—a true story. After a wealthy woman was brutally murdered in her Glasgow home in 1908, the police found a convenient suspect in Oscar Slater, an immigrant Jewish cardsharp. Though he was known to be innocent, Slater was tried, convicted, and consigned to life at hard labor. Outraged by this injustice, Arthur Conan Doyle, already world renowned as the creator of Sherlock Holmes, used the methods of his most famous character to reinvestigate the case, ultimately winning Slater’s freedom. With “an eye for the telling detail, a forensic sense of evidence and a relish for research” (The Wall Street Journal), Margalit Fox immerses readers in the science of Edwardian crime detection and illuminates a watershed moment in its history, when reflexive prejudice began to be replaced by reason and the scientific method. Praise for Conan Doyle for the Defense “Artful and compelling . . . [Fox’s] narrative momentum never flags. . . . Conan Doyle for the Defense will captivate almost any reader while being pure catnip for the devotee of true-crime writing.”—The Washington Post “Developed with brio . . . [Fox] is excellent in linking the 19th-century creation of policing and detection with the development of both detective fiction and the science of forensics—ballistics, fingerprints, toxicology and serology—as well as the quasi science of ‘criminal anthropology.’”—The New York Times Book Review “[Fox] has an eye for the telling detail, a forensic sense of evidence and a relish for research.”—The Wall Street Journal “Gripping . . . The book works on two levels, much like a good Holmes case. First, it is a fluid story of a crime. . . . Second, and more pertinently, it is a deeper story of how prejudice against a class of people, the covering up of sloppy police work and a poisonous political atmosphere can doom an innocent. We should all heed Holmes’s salutary lesson: rationally follow the facts to find the truth.”—Time

Book Trial of Oscar Slater

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  • Author : William Roughead
  • Publisher : Obscure Press
  • Release : 2008-11
  • ISBN : 1443740071
  • Pages : 428 pages

Download or read book Trial of Oscar Slater written by William Roughead and published by Obscure Press. This book was released on 2008-11 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1929. Author: W. Teignmouth Shore Language: English Keywords: Social Sciences / Legal History Notable British Trials Series. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Obscure Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Book The Trial of Oscar Slater

Download or read book The Trial of Oscar Slater written by William Roughead and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-07-21 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Trial of Oscar Slater" is a historical account of the scandalous trial. Oscar Slater was a German bookmaker who lived in London and was wrongfully accused of murder. The following year Scottish lawyer and amateur criminologist William Roughead published his research titled "Trial of Oscar Slater," highlighting flaws in the prosecution. After the pressure from the public and some Conservative politicians, including Ramsay MacDonald and Arthur Conan Doyle, a new secret inquiry started, after which Slater was released in 1928 with £6,000 compensation, although the real murderers, protected by political connections, were never punished.

Book A Very Quiet Street

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  • Author : Frank Kuppner
  • Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
  • Release : 1989
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 200 pages

Download or read book A Very Quiet Street written by Frank Kuppner and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Trial of Oscar Slater

Download or read book Trial of Oscar Slater written by Oscar Slater and published by Canada Law Book Company. This book was released on 1910 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This report of the trial of Oscar Slater has been prepared from the official shorthand writers' notes taken in Court, the evidence of all the principal witnesses being printed verbatim" --pref.

Book The Case of Oscar Slater

Download or read book The Case of Oscar Slater written by Arthur Conan Doyle and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doyle's nonfiction work is about the injustice suffered by Oscar Slater, a German Jew falsely convicted of murder.

Book CASE OF OSCAR SLATER

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  • Author : ARTHUR CONAN. DOYLE
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2018
  • ISBN : 9781033019962
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book CASE OF OSCAR SLATER written by ARTHUR CONAN. DOYLE and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Oscar Slater   A Killer Exposed

Download or read book Oscar Slater A Killer Exposed written by Brenda Rossini and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2024-03-27 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of Oscar Slater, a Jewish immigrant in Glasgow, Scotland and two fellow Scottish scammers, Helen Lambie and Patrick Nugent. In the Christmas season of 1908, the trio conspired to rob an elderly, wealthy lady of her diamonds, and, in the course of which burglary, Oscar Slater murdered her on December 21, 1908. All, not some, authors and sleuths who researched the 1909 conviction emphatically supported Oscar Slater's innocence, that he was misidentified and wrongfully convicted. In an effort to place guilt for Marion Gilchrist's murder squarely on Oscar Slater, the conclusions here reach further back in the crime's timeline to January 1908, about a year before the murder-the month that Patrick Nugent and Helen Lambie attended a New Year's party. The Glasgow police investigation tarried at only 30 days leading up to the murder. FROM THE INTRODUCTION "When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." Sherlock Holmes, Sign of Four. "If you're looking for Trouble, you've come to the right place." Trouble, by Elvis Presley. "I am Woman, hear me roar." I am Woman, by Helen Reddy.

Book Trial of Oscar Slater  Classic Reprint

Download or read book Trial of Oscar Slater Classic Reprint written by William Roughead and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-13 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Trial of Oscar Slater This report of the trial of Oscar Slater has been prepared from the official shorthand writers' notes taken in Court, the evidence of all the principal witnesses being printed verbatim. The Editor confesses to a certain diffidence in dealing with a case so recent in which the actors, with the regrettable exception of Mr. Ewing Speirs, the agent for the defence, are still in life. But notwithstanding the obvious restrictions imposed by these conditions, the endeavour has been made to give in the Introduction an accurate and fair account of this very remarkable case. The facts as disclosed upon the proof have been narrated in the order in which they occurred, from the evidence of the various witnesses at the trial, thus affording a consecutive view of the course of events, which it is hoped will enable the reader more easily to appreciate the purport of the evidence led. The Editor would here acknowledge the facilities which have been afforded to him by the learned Judge who presided at the trial, as well as by the counsel on both sides of the bar, and by the medical witnesses for the prosecution and defence. The Honourable Lord Guthrie has favoured the Editor by revising his charge to the jury; the Right Honourable Alexander Ure, Lord Advocate, and Mr. A. L. M'Clure, K.C., Sheriff of Argyll, have also done him the favour of revising their addresses. Professor Glaister, M.D., has kindly read the proof sheets of the medical evidence adduced by the Crown; Dr. Aitchison Robertson and Dr. Alexander Veitch those of their evidence for the defence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book The Ardlamont Mystery

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  • Author : Daniel Smith
  • Publisher : Michael O'Mara Books
  • Release : 2018-05-03
  • ISBN : 1782438475
  • Pages : 279 pages

Download or read book The Ardlamont Mystery written by Daniel Smith and published by Michael O'Mara Books. This book was released on 2018-05-03 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The real-life mystery featuring the two men - Joseph Bell and Henry Littlejohn - who inspired the creation of Sherlock Holmes.

Book The Case of Oscar Slater

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  • Author : Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
  • Release : 2023-11-09
  • ISBN : 3387309481
  • Pages : 90 pages

Download or read book The Case of Oscar Slater written by Arthur Conan Doyle and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-11-09 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

Book The case of Oscar Slater

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  • Author : Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
  • Release : 2023-09-18
  • ISBN : 3368939688
  • Pages : 41 pages

Download or read book The case of Oscar Slater written by Arthur Conan Doyle and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-09-18 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.

Book Scots Law Tales

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  • Author : John P. Grant
  • Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
  • Release : 2010
  • ISBN : 9781845860677
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Scots Law Tales written by John P. Grant and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: child abuse in Orkney. --

Book Beyond This Place

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  • Author : A J Cronin
  • Publisher : Boxtree
  • Release : 2016-02-01
  • ISBN : 1743541104
  • Pages : 325 pages

Download or read book Beyond This Place written by A J Cronin and published by Boxtree. This book was released on 2016-02-01 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Mathry, a student about to graduate and embark upon a teaching career, finds out that his father was convicted for murder, a secret that his mother had hidden from him since his childhood. Driven by an intense desire to see his father, Paul sets out to visit him in prison, only to find out that visitors are never allowed there. From there, he meets the primary witnesses in the case that convicted his father, not all of whom are supportive to Paul's cause. He encounters several dead ends but he persists, with the help of a store girl named Lena and a news reporter. His persistent campaign finally bears fruit. Rees Mathry, Paul's father, goes on appeal and is vindicated. The novel ends with Paul's father, a hardened, cynical man, seeing a fleeting hope for self-renewal and a purposeful life. In the magnificent narrative tradition of The Citadel, The Stars Look Down and Cronin’s other classic novels, Beyond This Place is a great book by a much-loved author.