Show I FATHER EATS CHILD Awful Story of Cannibalism Comes from the Far North A St Johns N FAn Eskimo driven to caniballsm by starvation ate his child according to a story brought from the far north by the Hudson Bay companys steamer Adventure which arrived with the crew of the lost Dundee Dun-dee whaler Paradox The mans hunting and fishing season sea-son had failed and made mad by hunger hun-ger he cut the throat of one of his children and then ate the lltto victim vic-tim When the mans neighbors learned lof the crime they attacked him according ac-cording to the primitive law of their races The outcast beat off all the assaults shot down several of the attacking at-tacking party and escaped into the trackless wilderness of Ice |