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Show THIRTY-ONE MUTINEERS CONVICTED OF MURDER, THREE WILL BE HANGED MANILA, Feb. 12. Thirty-one members of the crew of the inter-insular steamer Dos.Hermandos, who mutinied in August last at Port Virac, island of Catanduamas, and murdered the chief engineer, steward and carpenter of the vessel and wounded the captain, mate, second engineer and one of the passengers wtre convicted of murder today. Three of the men were sentenced to be hanged and twenty-eight condemned to life imprisonment. -. '-- The mutiny on the Dos Hermandos was plotted under the leadership of a native boatswain of that vessel. . The mutineers purposed to steal $150,000 which, they supposed to be on. board. . The officer were- fitnlng when they were at-" at-" tacked. The steward and carpenter were murdered while defending the officersL During the combat the steamer ran aground and a force of constabulary which went to the fescue killed three of the mutineers and captured thirty-one of them. |