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Show MAN REPORTED SLAIN . IN NEBRASKA SI TO IE JIIIVE IN SALT LAKE Local Police Asked to Investigate Story Told by Accused i Murderer jti t ., , j 'Hi 't'O .' ,T,Llncqn, Neb,., 'Pec. ,4-mTty.RDr erts, arrested-while-on parole from the Nebraska state prison for the al-iogeT al-iogeT murder of"fVornon Connett nt Will ' Platte 'Neb., ' says "lhat Con-neit Con-neit was not" murdered but is alive and a prize fighter cVSalt Lake under un-der tho assumed name of D! Louder. Loud-er. Roberts has written a letter addressed ad-dressed to D. Louder at Salt Lake In an effort to prove his story. The Nebraska prison officials have t-r H graphed the, Snlt Lake pollco to In- B vcstlgnto. H Connett disappeared abQut a month I ago. Woody clothing was found In I his room.- Hoberts-was the' last per- I son seen with Connet and he has I told conflicting storleB, II sai(, Whilo tho prison authorities hero I nro confident that Connett was mur. dcred they have-been'-unablo to nnd I his body andre now dragging a I big drainage dUch near, hero. I The, Salt Laker police rccelred a I mange (ram the "NebasKa pri30n I officials last ulghtTrequestlnc them t0 I Investigate tho story' told by Iloberts. J- Hardy K. Downing, nianaKcc ot tuti Pf Manhattan Doxlng club sala that he does not know any boxer by tho name of D. Louder, nor do r,y 0f those who have boxed In Salt Lako for soveral months past correspond to tho description given of Louder. |