William Roughead
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William Roughead was a Scottish lawyer and amateur criminologist, as well as an editor and essayist on "matters criminous". He was an important early practitioner of the modern "true crime" literary g
William Roughead
Oscar Slater
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Oscar Joseph Slater was the victim of a notorious miscarriage of justice in Scotland. Wrongly convicted of murder and sentenced to death, he was freed after almost two decades of hard labour at Scotla
William Roughead
…murder cases and trials have the advantage of being concise and pointed, like folk tales." Perhaps Roughead's greatest achievement was his analysis of Oscar Slater's trial for the murder of the Glasgow spinster Marion Gilchrist in 1908. Roughead assisted Arthur Conan Doyle, Craigie Aitchison and William Park for…
Oscar Slater 1908
Oscar Slater's hammer
The victim's dining room and the site of the murder
Woodlands. 49 West Princes Street. Marion Gilchrist's house. 2020.