MURDERER SHOT

Greymouth Evening Star, 14 January 1928, Page 7

MURDERER SHOT

DESPERADO’S CAREER ENDED TEN LIVES TAKEN (“Sydney Sun” Service.) (By Cable—Press Assn.—Copyright.) NEW YORK, January 12. 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 the hands of a Montana police posse. It states that Hamilton was responsible for ten murders. Nine years ago, in Montana, he killed a man named Duthie, and escaped to the woods. Next, he lived with a settler named Black. Following relations with Black’s wife, he. killed Black and a year later, killed Mrs Black and two children. On charges of the murder of two other persons, he was sent to an asylum, but escaped two years ago and had remained up to the date shooting the sheriff and two companions. WOMAN EXECUTED. NEW YORK, January 12. After every legal effort failed ' to secure a stay of proceedings. Ruth Snyder and Henry Judd Gray were electrocuted in Sing Sing Prison, for the murder of the woman’s husband. Mrs Snyder was the first woman to suffier capital punishment in New York State for nineteen years, and only the third since electrocution was instituted. STRANGLER, HANGED. OTTAWA, January 13. Earl Nelson, the strangler of over a score of women in the United States and Canada, was hanged at Winnipeg to-day. He maintained his innocence till the last.