Conan Doyle rushes to the rescue
Independent film company Gold Circle Entertainment will introduce viewers to one of the most curious facts about the biography of writer Arthur Conan Doyle. The California studio acquired the film rights to Margalit Fox's Conan Doyle for the Defense, which tells how the creator of Sherlock Holmes took an example from his famous literary hero and flashed his detective talent in the early 20th century.In 1908, the headlines of British newspapers spread the news of the brutal massacre of 82-year-old Marion Gilchrist. The public began to demand immediate action from Scotland Yard to capture the criminal. The police seized on the first available version and arrested a Jewish immigrant from Germany, Oscar Slater. Although the suspect had a solid alibi, his case did go to trial. The defense presented several proofs of Oscar's innocence, but nine out of fifteen jurors sided with the prosecution. As a result, Slater was sentenced to death. Luckily for Oscar, his lawyers managed to raise a buzz in the press and get the sentence changed to life imprisonment. This scandalous story soon caught the attention of Arthur Conan Doyle. The master of the detective genre carefully studied the testimony of the witnesses and came to the conclusion that Slater was the victim of a blatant error in the judicial system. In 1912, the writer published a pamphlet, The Oscar Slater Case, in which he made a convincing case for the innocence of the prisoner of Peterhead prison. Thanks to this literary work, the case of the Gilchrist murder did not leave the pages of the world press for many years. In 1927, the court finally decided to revise it and released Oscar.  The adaptation of the book by Margalit Fox will be done by the scriptwriter of the crime drama "Black Mass" Mark Malluk. * - preliminary translation. Source: The Hollywood Reporter The Topic of Article: Conan Doyle rushes to the rescue. |
