Evening Star Newspaper, January 20, 1937, Page 9

SLAIN POLICEMAN CHAINED T0 POST Police of Three States Hunt Former Convict in Mich- igan Killing. B5 the Assoctated Press. MONROE, Mich., January 20.—Mer- ciless exécution of a State policeman, shackled unconscious to a rural mail box, today called officers from three States in the most intensive hunt for & killer in Michigan's history. ‘Their quarry was Alcide (Frenchy) Benoit, 25-year-old former convict and motor theft suspect, who over- powered Patrolman Richard F. Ham- mond in a police patrol car after his arrest last midnight. ‘The trooper's body was found slumped against the mail box near Erie, 9 miles south of Monroe, five hours later. Coroner Ernest Durell said Hammond had been slugged with & pistol butt, dragged to the steel post supporting the box and shot through the head. The mail box was blood- spattered. Sleet-covered highways hampered the search, in which officers from Ohio and Indiana joined. Bad-weather conditions grounded airplanes from which observers were to have scanned | the area. Abandons Police Car. Benoit abandoned the patrol car at Lulu, Mich,, and fled on foot into a | woods, after exchanging shots with | two Monroe County deputies. John Smith, 29, alias Mike Delberto, | also a former convict, was arrested | with Benoit. Smith, in custody today, | said Benoit had a pistol concealed in his trouser leg when they were seized by Hammond and Trooper Sam Sineni. ‘The officers were watching for two | men who had abducted Fred Williams, | Detroit used-car salesman, in a motor car he demonstrated Monday night, and left him tied to a tree near To- ledo. Trooper Sineni placed Smith in the stolen car and started to Monroe, | Hammond and Benoit following in the | patrol car. Hammond's car started south on | ‘Telegraph road instead of coming into Monroe,” Sireni said. “‘What's up?’ | 1 asked Smith as I prepared to follow them. He replied, ‘No use, he's got a | rod’ Then Smith disclosed Benoit had the pistol concealed on his per- son.” Sineni followed the patrol car 10 miles south before Benoit forced Ham- mond to block the highway with it.| Sineni stopped 200 yards away. He| sald two trucks stopped and the driv- | R ‘ers refused his request to rush the barricade with their vehicles. Sineni started on foot toward the car, exchanging shots with Benoit until the fugitive fled in the car, still holding Hammond prisoner. Sineni's car was mired at the road- side and he was unable to follow. Two Monroe County deputy sheriffs, Joe Dansard and Robert Navarre, came upon the hunted car near Lulu, Mich,, and again a gun battle ensued, with Benoit finally abandoning the patrol car. He escaped on foot into nearby woods. In the blood-stained car was the uniform coat of Trooper Hammond. It was saturated with blood. At 5 am. officers patrolling roads in the area came upon the body of the missing trooper. Hammond had been shot through the head. His body was slumped against a rural mail box and his wrists were shackled with his own handcuffs to a steel post. SEVERAL INJURED IN TRAIN WRECK Six Cars of Atlantic Coast Line “Southland” Derailed in Florida. By the Associated Press. ODESSA, Fla., January 20.—Sev- eral passengers and crewmen were in- jured, none apparently seriously, by | derailment of six cars of the Atlantic Coast Line's tourist train, the South- land, here today. Day coaches and Pullmans were thrown from the track, although they did not turn over completely. The locomotive, express car and diner re- mained on the ralls. First aid treatment was adminis- | tered the injured here while doctors and ambulances were coming from Tarpon Springs and Clearwater. The accident took place just as the Southland train cleared the switch in the yards. Railroad officials said they had not ascertained the cause. 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TACOMA, Wash,, January 20.— Two poignant notes in the handwrit- ing of 10-year-old Charles Mattson, written to his parents from a kidnap lair, were disclosed today as Federal agents here apparently faced an im- passe in their search for the boy's slayer. In a copyrighted story, the Seattle Post-Intelligéncer published what it said were the texts of the notes, both containing threats of death for their young writer. ‘The newspaper said the two notes, as received by Dr. W. W. Mattson, the boy's father, were: (1)—*“If you want the boy back pay ransom let us know through the papers have the money car ready. Call police off, ransom paid at night you will get a phone call where to find note. You will find 5 or 6 before we tell you where to leave the suit case, you will go lonely roads. If cars are Night Coughs Relieved You can have rest tonight. Coughs caused from colds need not disturb vou and members of your family. 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If you do not men- tion it in papers stay by phone at nites with money and car ready. “If you do not obey the connections will be off for keeps and remember an army of police can kill a couple of kidnapers, but they wjll not be able D. C, WEDNESDAY to find the kid until after he is dead. “TIM TIM.” With Harold Nathan, chief of the Federal searching forces, still in Los Angeles on an unexplained mission, agents here worked on quietly. Only three small groups were known to be outside the city. One group questioned George Wil- son, a prisoner at Portland, Oreg. Wilson was said by a Portland officer to fit the kidnaper's description close- ly and to have asserted he was “glad” the Mattson boy had been killed. Other agents were in Bellingham, Wash,, where Leigh Haskell Fowler, under a 20-year sentence for a mill robbery, still was held in the city jail. HUNT SPREADS TO SEAYTLE. Hobo Jungles Are Scoured by Mattson Case Probers, SEATTLE, January 20 (#).—The @olophone Home NOW! 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