MONTANA DESPERADO
REPORTED SHOT BY POLICE RESPONSIBLE FOR TEN MURDERS Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright NEW YORK, January 12, (Received January 14, at 8.25 a.m.) Ben Hamilton, the Montana desperado who recently escaped after fatally shooting a sheriff and two deputies, is now reported to have met his death at tho hands of a Montana police posse. It is stated that Hamilton was responsible for ten murders. Nino years ago in Montana he killed a man named Dutliie and escaped to the woods and lived with a settler named Black. 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 other persons, he was sent to an asylum, but escaped two years ago and bad remained free up to the date of the shooting of tho sheriff and his two companions.—Sydney ‘ Sun ’ Cable.
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Evening Star, Issue 19764, 14 January 1928, Page 5
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