THREE MEN SHOT.
CAPTURED DESPERADO ESCAPE'S
HY CABLE- PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT NEW YORK, Jan. 31
Ben Hamilton, a noted Montana desperado, stoic some cattle in the week preceding Christmas. The police spread the alarm through the countryside and finally Sheriff Babcock and two deputies, Withington and ’Cummings, cap. tured him in Idaho.
They brought him back to his native village and when passing Ben’s house he requested permission to obtain a change of clothing. Stopping the sleigh Ben stepped out 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.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 5 January 1928, Page 5
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112THREE MEN SHOT. Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 5 January 1928, Page 5
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