NOTORIOUS MURDERER
REPORTED DEATH AT HANDS OF POLICE (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) ("Sun" Cable) (Received 14th Jan., 8.25 a.m.) NEW YORK, 12th Jan. Ben Hamilton, the Montana desperado who recently escaped after fatally shooting a sheriff and two deputies, is now reported to have, met death at the hands of a Montana police posse. It is stated that Hamilton was responsible for ten murders. Nine years ago in Montana he killed a man named Dutnie, 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 two children. On charges of the murder of two other persons h'e was sent to an asylum, but escaped two years ago and had remained free up to the date of .shooting the sheriff and his two companions.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 14 January 1928, Page 7
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