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Show Wins Fame as Sleuth Jake eventually confessed the murder. mur-der. Be had burned the pajnms trousers after killing bis wife during a quarrel. In the Mellett murder Slater faced a blank wall until a mysterious telephone tele-phone call from Masslllou, later traced to Hen Rudner, convicted as the "pay off" man In the plot, provided pro-vided the loophole. Slater la a long-distance talker and a story teller of Interest. Often he has disarmed a suspect merely by talking him Into security. Canton Ohio. Ora Sluter never read Sherlock Holmes nor heard of S. S. Van Dine, but he Is a detective of flctiouul qualities just the same. Sluter bus figured prominently In three famous Ohio murder mysteries He solved the Neshltt case at Troy a few years ago, and later conducted the Investigation of the mysterious shooting of Don Mellett, the Canton publisher. One of his recent cuses was In connection con-nection with the death of Margaret Heldman, twenty-year-old wife of a Lorain furnace salesman. Wilbur O. Heldman, her husband, was charged with the murder. Slater's method of solving homicide masteries Is to trace down every clew, question every possible suspect. search minutely for a loophole he says there always Is one and then peer long and patiently through the loophole. The detective gained a local distinction dis-tinction In Indinuu, his native state, bundling Investigations for the government gov-ernment during the World war. Afterward he became a private detective de-tective In Cincinnati. .One morning Mrs. Jake Neshltt, young Ohio State university graduate, gradu-ate, was found beaten to death In her Troy borne. Jake helped the officers of-ficers seek the slayer, at first believed to be a vagrant Slater was called In. Neshltt 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. |