Oscar Slater: The Immortal Case of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

In 1909, Oscar Slater, a German Jew, was convicted and sentenced to death for the brutal murder of the elderly spinster Marion Gilchrist, in Glasgow, Scotland. His trial is now known to have been one of the most scandalous miscarriages of justice in the annals of legal history--Slater was basically convicted on the basis of racial prejudice and flimsy circumstantial evidence.