Typed Letter Signed Boothby, recalling his encounter with Oscar Slater. I remember when I was Member of Parliament for East Aberdeenshire, playing whist one day with some prisoners in Peterhead Jail. I told my partner that he looked very cross; and he replied, "I have good reason to be. My name is Oscar Slater."

House of Lords, 1 April 1967. Oscar Joseph Slater (1872 – 1948) was a famous victim of a Scottish miscarriage of justice. Arthur Conan Doyle campaigned extensively to free Oscar Slater, a German Jew wrongly convicted of the 1908 murder of Marion Gilchrist in Glasgow. After receiving a smuggled letter from Slater, Doyle investigated the case, published a 1912 book arguing for his innocence, and funded the legal fight. The case highlighted police incompetence, anti-Semitic prejudice, and resulted in a significant miscarriage of justice.sentenced to death (then commuted to life imprisonment) for the murder of Marion Gilchrist in 1908. In 1912, Conan Doyle published The Case of Oscar Slater, a plea for a full pardon for Slater. Lord Robert Boothby (1900–1986): A prominent British Conservative politician and life peer known for his long parliamentary career, media presence, and colorful personal life, which included scandals involving the Kray twins.