POLICEMAN MURDERED
NEW YORK. January 21
A man hunt began at Monroe (Michigan) following the discovery of tha body of a State policeman, R. F. Hammond, shot in the head. He was handcuffed to a mailbox on a lonely country road and was found five hours after Alcidi Beftoit, an ex-convict, overpowered him in a police car and fled to tha forest. After an exciting hunt, Benoit was captured and confessed to murdering Hammond and committing robberies in eight cities. He was armed with two pistols and forced a farmer and his son to enter their truck with him while he drove along the highway, dodging police cars for more than an hour. , Benoit finally halted when a policeman fired a rifle bullet into the truck, unaware that there were , two captives inside. Benoit jumped out and struggled with four policemen, but was overpowered.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 18, 22 January 1937, Page 9
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