CAPTORS SHOT
BY MONTANA DESPERADO (Rec. January 4, 7.40 p.m.) New York, January 3. Ben. Hamilton, a noted Montana desperado, stole cattle in the week pre-' ceding Chrjstmas. The police spread an alapn through the countryside and finally Sheriff Babcock and two deputies, Withington and Cummings, captured Hamilton in ' Idaho. They brought the man back to his native village, and when passing his bouse Hamilton • requested permission to ob. tain a change qf clothing Stopping the sleigh, Ben. stepped down, and a moment later reappeared with a gun, with which he bored the head of each man before again taking to the hills. Searchers found the trio dead, still seated in the sleigh.—Sydney “Sun” Cable.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 82, 5 January 1928, Page 9
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