AMERICAN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 14 January 1928, Page 2

AMERICAN NEWS

STRANCLER NELSON. HANGED FOR 20 MURDERS. (Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.') OTTAAYA. Jan. 13. Earl Nelson the strangler of over a score of women in the United States and Canada, was hanged at AVinnipeg to-day. He maintained his innocence till the last. MONTANA DESPER A DO. NEW YORK, Jan. 12. Ben Hamilton, a Montana desperado, who recently escaped after fatally shooting the sheriff and two deputies, is now reported to have met his death at the hands of a Montana, police posse. It is stated that Hamilton was responsible lor toil murders. Nino years ago in Montana, be killed a man named Dutliie and escaped' to the woods. He lived with a sottlei named Black. Following relations with Black’s wife be killed Black n.nd a year later killed Mrs Black and two children. On charges of murder of two other persons, lie was sent to an asylum, but escaped two years ago, and had remained free up to the date of shooting the sheriff and two companions.

CANADIAN BUDGET. OTTAWA, Jan. 13. A forecast of the Canadian budget indicates the resumption of penny postage to Britain and other parts of the Empire, a cut in the sales tax, and downward revision of the tariff on cotton and woollens. The cigarettes tax will be cut 60 per cent.