When offense occurred, Slaughter took the trail, and seldom returned with a live prisoner. Usually he reported that he had chased the suspect “clean out of the county”; these suspects never reappeared in Tombstone—or anywhere else.
ATTRIBUTION:
Administration in the State of Ariz, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943). Arizona: A State Guide (The WPA Guide to Arizona), p. 244, Hastings House (1940).
