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Show MOSQUITOES AS EXECUTIONERS Malays on Island Near New Orleans, Execute Death Sentence on Prisoners With Poisonous Pests. NEW ORLEANS. La., Sept. 17. United States Commissioner Chlapella has discovered dis-covered a hotbed of crime and defiance to State In a colony of Malays, who occupy an isolated Island leas than fifty miles from New Orleans, Judge Chlapella has a letter giving authentic Information of shocking conditions in the little Malay settlement. The Malays do not speak, English, have no schools and know no laws but their own tribal relations. It Is believed many atrocious crimes have been committed among them without comlDg to the knowledge of the State and Federal authorities. au-thorities. The Island is filthy and Infested In-fested by millions of mosquitoes of a specially spe-cially poisonous type. These peBts are raised by the Malays for the purpose of keeping out invadera who dread being bitten by them. It is said that a favorite form of execution execu-tion practiced by the Malays is to take one of their tribe, sentenced to death, tie him to a tree in a swamp, remove his clothing and then leave him to be bitten by the poisonous mosquitoes until life is extinct. A section of the Island where these terrible mosquitoes abound by the millions. mil-lions. Is selected or the executions. The Malays pay no taxes and govern themselves. |