DESPERADO SHOT.

Grey River Argus, 16 January 1928, Page 5

DESPERADO SHOT.

By Police Posse. NEW YORK, January 12. Bea 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 so up to the date shooting the sheriff and two companions? STRANGLER HANGED. MURDERER OF 20 WOMEN. 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 Ms innocence till the last.