page_title: Oscar Slater
hierarchical_section_title: Oscar Slater
caption_attribution_description: English: p.37 introduction.
context_page_description: Oscar Joseph Slater was the victim of Scotland's worst ever miscarriage of justice. Wrongly convicted of murder and sentenced to death, he was freed after almost two decades of hard labour at Scotland’s HM Prison Peterhead through the efforts of multiple journalists, lawyers, and writers, including Sherlock Holmes author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
context_section_description: Oscar Joseph Slater (8 January 1872 – 31 January 1948) was the victim of Scotland's worst ever miscarriage of justice. Wrongly convicted of murder and sentenced to death, he was freed after almost two decades of hard labour at Scotland’s HM Prison Peterhead through the efforts of multiple journalists, lawyers, and writers, including Sherlock Holmes author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
caption: Oscar Slater 1908
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