CATTLE STEALER'S ESCAPE.
SHERIFF AND DEPUTIES SHOT
(BT CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION* —COPYRIGHT.) (Sydney "Sun" Service.)
(deceived January 4th, 7.40 p.m.)
NEW YORK, January 3,
Ben Hamilton, a noted Montana desperado, stole cattle in the week preceding Christmas. The police spread the alarm through the countryside, and finally a sheriff, Babcock, and two deputies, Withington anc 1 Cummings, captured him in Idaho. They brought him back to his natn e village, and when they were_ passing his house, Ben requested permission to obtain a change of clothing. j he glbjgh was stopped, and Ben alighted. A moment later he reappeared „ a gun. with which he bored the head ot each man before again taking to the found the trio dead, still seated in tho sleigh.
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Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19200, 5 January 1928, Page 7
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