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AWAITING EXTRADITION.raining Mail in Jail Here Charged With Shooting Officer.Lee Hugtcd. of Coming ih being held here by legal authorities in connection with the-Shooting of Hugh Hamlin, a N. Y. C- detective, in the Corning railroad yards.last Thursdaynigfht. . ..Hewas brought to the County jail WOj^pssburg hospital where he. was receiving, treatment -fojpft. bullet wound in his hands- It is believed that he is one of th epalr-.implica’ted in the shooting of officer 'Hamlin, and that he received his wound from a revolver shot-or shots from the'.officer’s, gun, who fired after he had been wounded. Hosted, it is understood, explains that he received his wound when he was accidentally shot while cleaning a gun. The police are seek-ing an accomplice said to have been with Husted in the vicinity of the whej-e the shooting: occurred, on the night-in question.•Police and railroad officials believe that a solution of the shooting will reveal who has been looting Central and Erie freight trains in this section for some time. There have hpgn hggvy losses around Tioga Junction, anjTWs believed that the man under ‘arrest and the mail sought can 'he connected with them.It has been learned that Husted was taken to the hospital Thursday night by two women? the trip- being made by a taxi. The police are now-working to identify the driver and the women.Husted, whose, real nanre is Leon Hyde was formerly a resident of Tio-ra and 1s a brother of Hany Hyde vho at one time figured in ..the crimin-i\ courts of Tioga County on a charge if burglary.' *The prisoner has waived extradition j md will be returned-to Coming forjviol
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Wellsboro Gazette
Wellsboro, Pennsylvania, US
Thu, Sep 27, 1923
Page 10
Full Page
Clipped by
Michael B.
NA, 02 May 2019
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