Evening Star Newspaper, May 16, 1929, Page 34

CHOSLEUTHTLLS HOW HE SUCCEEDS Find a Loophole, Then Sit| and Look, He Says, to Catch Criminal. CANTON, Ohio, May 16—Ora | Blater ftever read Sherlock Holmes nor | heard of S. S. Van Dine, but he is a | detective of fictional qualities just the | same. Slater has figured prominently in three famous Ohio murder mysteries He solved the Nesbitt case at Troy a | few years ago and later conducted the investigation of the mysterious shoot- ing of Don Mellet, the Canton pub- lisher. Trails All Clues. ©One of his recent cases was in con- mecrion with the death of Margaret Heldman, 20-year-old wife of a Lorain furnace salesman. Wilbur O. Heldman, her husband, wae eharged with the murder, Slater's method of solving homicide mysteries is to trace down every clue, question every possible suspect, ‘search | v for a loophole—he says there ¢s is one—and then peer long and | patiently through the loophole. | The detective gained a local distinc- | tion in Indiana, his native State, han- dling investigations for the Govern-| ment during the World War. After- ward he became a private detective in | Cincinnati. ul One morning Mrs. Jake Nesbitt, young Ohio State University graduate, Was found beaten to death in her Troy home. Jake helped the officers seek the slayer, at first believed to be a vagrant. Slater was called In. Nes- bitt said he slept at home the night before the murder. The lower portion of his pajamas could not be found.| That was. Slater's loophole. | Eventually Confesses. i Jake eventually confessed the mur- | der. He had burned the pajama trou- sers after killing his wife during a | quarrel. | In the Mellet murder Slater faced a | blank wall until a mysterious telephone | call from Massillon, later traced to Ben Rudner, convicted as the “pay-off” man in the plot, provided the loophole. Slater is a long-distance talker and & story teller of interest. Often he has disarmed a suspect merely by talking him into secur DR. BAMBERGER ASKED TO SPEAK TO WOMEN | Prince Georges County Federation of Clubs to Meet May 24 at Mount Rainier. Special Dispatch to The Star. MOUNT RAINIER, Md, ‘May 16.— Dr. Florence Bamberger of Johns Hop- kins University has been invited to speak before the annual meeting of the Prince Georges County Federation of ‘Women's Clubs, to be held in Star Hall here May 24. Mrs. George F. Bower- man, president of the Twentieth Cen- tury Club ofq Washington, will speak on “The Best Books of the Last Year.” A one-act play, “Rhode Island Reds and Ohio Earlies,” will be presented by the Lanham Study Club, of which Mrs. Eben Toole is president. Mrs. O. F. Cook of Lanham, president of the county federation, will preside and the Chillum District Study Club, of which Mrs. J. Enos Ray is president, and the Chillum Woman's Community Club, of which Mrs. Harrison Dixon is president, will be joint hosts. Mrs. Rudolph S. Allen of College, first vice president of the county federation, has a prominent part in arranging for the muzm Luncheon will be served gflAdah ipter, Order of the Eastern T, Seeks Africa’s Heart. Aged 72 years, Dr. Bailey Willis, re- search associate seismologist of the Carnegie Institution, is on his way to the interlor of Africa, where he will THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON. D. 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