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Author : Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
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:
Author : Thomas Toughill
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752482688
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)
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.
Author : Margalit Fox
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0399589465
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (995 download)
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
Author : William Roughead
Publisher : Obscure Press
ISBN 13 : 1443740071
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (437 download)
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.
Author : Brenda Rossini
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
ISBN 13 : 1804241806
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (42 download)
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.
Author : William Park
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Truth about Oscar Slater written by William Park and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Roughead
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
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.
Author : Richard Whittington-Egan
Publisher : Neil Wilson Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781897784884
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (848 download)
Download or read book The Oscar Slater Murder Story written by Richard Whittington-Egan and published by Neil Wilson Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oscar Slater, a disreptuable German immigrant, living on the fringe of the Glaswegian underworld and off the proceeds of gambling and prostitution, was sentenced to death in 1909 for the brutal murder of Marion Gilchrist, a rich spinster who lived with a secret hoard of precious jewels hidden in her wardrobe in Edwardian Glasgow's fashionable West Princes Street. Slater, travelling with his mistress under a false name, was tracked down and arrested in New York. Extradited and tried in Edinburgh, he actually heard the gallows being erected for him, but was repreieved at the 11th hour and spent the next 18 years in the granite fortress of Peterhead prison, ceaselessly protesting his innocence.
Author : Oscar Slater
Publisher : Canada Law Book Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
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.
Author : William Roughead
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781019891940
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (919 download)
Download or read book Trial of Oscar Slater; written by William Roughead and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This true crime classic tells the story of Oscar Slater, a Jewish immigrant who was wrongfully convicted of murder in Scotland in 1908. Based on extensive research and firsthand accounts, it exposes the corruption and prejudice that led to Slater's arrest and conviction, and is a powerful indictment of the Scottish legal system at the time. 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.
Author : William Roughead
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781331341611
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (416 download)
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.
Author : Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 103 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (112 download)
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.
Author : Frank Kuppner
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
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:
Author : Daniel Smith
Publisher : Michael O'Mara Books
ISBN 13 : 1782438475
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (824 download)
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.
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Author : Oscar Slater
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (314 download)
Download or read book Proceedings in Prosecution ... Against Oscar Slater [for Murder], Etc written by Oscar Slater and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jack House
Publisher : Black & White Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1845029224
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (45 download)
Download or read book Square Mile of Murder written by Jack House and published by Black & White Publishing. This book was released on 2002-06-30 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four of the world's greatest murders took place within a square mile of Glasgow's city centre during the latter part of Queen Victoria's rein. These horrific murders were committed not in the East End as expected, but in the fashionable and respectable West End of Glasgow. Madeline Smith was accused and found not guilty of lacing her doomed lover's late-night cocoa with arsenic; an eighty-three year old woman was brutally battered to death, and Jessie McPherson was brutally struck forty times with a meat cleaver, in a case considered by some authorities to be the finest in the world. However, by far the most chilling crimes are those of Dr Edward William Pritchard, "The Human Crocodile", who had the coffin lid unscrewed so that he could kiss the lips of the wife he had calculatingly murdered by slow poisoning. Glasgow is a city renowned for its crime and violence, but little has been documented about Victorian crime. This timely new edition of a classic best-seller, is the first of its kind, and is as valid today as ever.
Author : William Roughead
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 9780940322462
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (224 download)
Download or read book Classic Crimes written by William Roughead and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2000-08-31 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dorothy Sayers called William Roughead "the best showman who ever stood before the door of the chamber of horrors," and his true crime stories, written in the early 1900s, are among the glories of the genre. Displaying a meticulous command of evidence and unerring dramatic flair, Roughead brings to life some of the most notorious crimes and extraordinary trials of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century England and Scotland. Utterly engrossing, these accounts of pre-meditated mayhem and miscarried justice also cast a powerful light on the evil that human beings, and human institutions, find both tempting to contemplate and all too easy to do.
