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Submitted: 11/2/21 • Approved: 11/2/21 • Last Updated: 11/5/21 • R466443-G0-S3
October 23, 1901-May 30, 1929
Mason
Immigration Border Patrol
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*Photo, courtesy of Robert L. Jones
*Information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
Fallen Agent: BENJAMIN T. HILL
DOB: October 23, 1901
Entered: May 14, 1929
Departed: May 30, 1929
Postion: Patrol Inspector
Patrol Inspector Hill was shot and killed near the international boundary, El Paso, Texas, on May 30, 1929, while pursuing a narcotics smuggler whom he had seen cross the Rio Grande River. While being pursued on foot through an alley, the smuggler suddenly wheeled and shot Inspector Hill through the heart, killing him instantly.
(Published by National Border Patrol Museum - Copyright © 2013 Border Patrol Museum & Memorial Library Foundation)
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Patrol Inspector Benjamin Hill was shot and killed while pursuing an illegal alien near El Paso, Texas.
He had observed the man cross the Rio Grande River and began to pursue him. When the man entered an alley he suddenly turned and shot Inspector Hill in the chest.
Inspector Hill had served with the United States Border Patrol for only two weeks. He was not married. He was buried in the Wheeler Cemetery, Wheeler County, Texas.
(Published at www.odmp.org)
Contributed on 11/2/21
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Record #: 466443