biography
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| lived:
| (1870–1952)
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| biography:
| Criminologist, from Edinburgh, EC Scotland, UK. As a legal apprentice in 1889 he began a lifelong fascination with murder. In 1906 the Trial of Dr Pritchard was the first of his 10 volumes in the ‘Notable British Trials’ series. Harshly moralistic towards the guilty, he also proved a formidable critic where he believed justice had erred. His edition of the Oscar Slater trial (1909, Slater [1873–1948] was wrongly accused and convicted of murder on the dubious evidence of witnesses who thought they saw him leaving the scene of the crime) was of major value in obtaining Slater's ultimate pardon (1928). |
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