TEN MURDERS.
A MONTANA DESPERADO.
REPORTED KILLED BY POSSE. (Per Press Association—Copyright.) ("Sun.") (Received This Day, 8.25 a.m.) NEW YORK, January 12. Ben Hamilton, the Montana desperado who recently escaped after fatally shooting the sheriff and two deputies, is reported to have met his death at the hands of a Montana police posse. It is stated that Hamilton was responsible for ten murders nine years' ago. In Montana he killed a man named Duthie and escaped to the woods. He lived with a settler named Black, and following relations with Black's wife, he killed Black, and a year later killed Mrs Black and her two children. On charges of the murder of two o'ther persons he was sent to a mental asylum, but escaped two years ago, and had remained free up to the date of the shooting of the sheriff and his two companions.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 48, Issue 80, 14 January 1928, Page 5
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