Show II I HOST ATROCIOUS MURDER Details of Horrible Crime at Capiasi t Philippines Washington Dec 211Vord has been received here of an atrocious murder in the Philippines at the town of Capi azi It appears from the testimony that two natives were responsible for the death of the wife of a neighbor They went to the house of a natlvo named Victor Pere and forcibly took him and his wife to the Pnnny river where they bound their hands behjnd them and told them that their lost day had come The woman was struck by a bolo and her dead body thrown into the river Her husband witnessed her mur yr and anticipating similar treatment sprang into the river and notwithstanding his arms were pinIoned pin-ioned managed to reach the opposite sideAccording to witnesses the motive for the crime was a superstitious belief be-lief that the murdered woman was possessed of occult powers whereby shin sh-in some mysterious way had brought about the death of a neighbors child The two men were sentenced to be hanged but Gen MacArthur mitigated mit-igated the sentence In each case to confinement at hard labor for twenty years out of consideration for the exceedingly ex-ceedingly low Intelligence and belief in superstition I |