Show cops catch youth in attempt to make brother hang self DETROIT ferndale police revealed that a 19 year old youth was seized trying to force his 16 year old brother to hang himself from a tree when police arrived in a wooded are they found two brothers samuel jr 19 and alfred hibbitt Is 1 standing on a tree limb i police were called by neighbors who heard alfred screaming alfred had a wire knotted around his neck with the other end fastened to an upper branch and his hands tied police said lt clifford fritz of the ferndale police said samuel had hit alfred on the head with a branch in ip an effort to make him jump alfred told fritz that his brother had been trying to get revenge because he had told their parents about a cache of vacuum cleaners cleaner sr and guns stolen by samuel samuel said they had just been having a friendly game of cop COPS and robbers samuel is under bond awaiting sentence on a breaking and entering harge charge he also is awaiting sentence for or a hunting violation he was held tor for investigation |