Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1916 — Arrest Made In Recent Robbery At Oxford. [ARTICLE]

Arrest Made In Recent Robbery At Oxford.

Fowler, Ind., August 30.—Boyd Slayter, a salesman handling disinfectant and floor varnish and polish, has been arrested in Chicago and is being hell at the lequest of Sheriff HamiltomOf Benton county. It is alleged thal Slayter is the man who robbed tnlt Daniel Messner store at Oxford th wboks ago last Saturday night of silks and merchandise to the value of $2,500. Slayter is known to have been in Oxford on the night of the robbery. He made the town his headquarters, but has not been seen since the robbery. The sheriff and Deputy Prosecutor Wilbur Nolin received a tip two weeks ago that Slayter might know something of the robbery and a systematic search was instituted. It was learned that inad been stopping at the Metz hotel in Lafayette, but inquiry there showed‘that he had not been there for over a month. The authorities learned at Lafayette that Slayter was supposed to be in Chicago* • C. M. Stewart, the general storekeeper at Barce, who is acquainted with Slayter, has gone to Chicago to identify him. Sheriff Hamilton left this afternoon for Indianapolis, where he will get requisition papers on the governor of Illinois for Slayter. The alleged robber will be brought here for trial.