| Show r l A FILIPINO MURDER S SOCIETY I I Had Their Diggers Own Executioner and ond Grave Gravo GraveS S J 1 n 10 I n Ft n TI n F 1 0 m t S mail brings to the tho war department the records In ceen eleven cases Filipinos were trl tried by military commissions on en Including m murder criminal t taul ac sault aul kidnapping assault anti battery burglary burglar and violatIon of the rules of war warA tr A trA case arose out ot Of the operatIons of n a bald baud of Filipinos caled called the Society ot of the The principle of this lila society next to the triumvirate if chiefs are time tho chief executioner anil o and the lie requisIte number of grave diggers who partIcipate In this work ot of the band The Tho lelder leaders select their victim capture anti cary carty hIm away In the nl night ht to u a se eret rendezvous on a beach co coy ered wih with vr very tal grass grau where the dig diggers geTs gers have already prepared the tho grave grae here In the pre presence encl of the band men and women tram front time tu to time have bec bent stabbed to death tte and ond tossed Into the tho graves The members of the band then disperse and trUst inist to the rie rIse and tal fall of the nearby their waters to hide the evidence of work Ten members ot of the tho band In I eluding two or of th tha clefa chiefs were vere tried fore a military commission and eight of them heat were ero sentenced to be hanged In approvIng the sentenceS General MacArthur To the reviewing authority It ix Is evl eI eIdent dent that there can be no hope of place peace for the 11 FIlipino no people nor securIty for their lives p and property until they shah Ihan learn to unite against ni nil bands or of murderers and assassins under r whatever name they aha shall 1 assume and conlo to the Resistance of the officers of the tho law In their determination to brIng them al all to justice In another case an armed band ot of about Filipinos carried awa away nine of the of the Barrio of had and by reo me bloated bows blows from time the but huts of theIr riles rules drove droe them to tIme the of Here ero ni all drank freely of Into Sinto and the were made drunk Then according to the tho testimony mony of two of tIme the prIsoners who eS eScaped the other seven were led or oft In Inthe Inthe the direction of a grove of trees where whereto two to days later lator their beheaded bodies were discovered The members of the tho bal band who were r received sentences of heath death In some cases and imprisonment mit at hard labor for varying lint terms In others Four our native policemen who had been sent to gather wood for lor a detachment or of American troops sere Ire set upon 01 one of their number was Os killed and another lost his arm ann A member of the band which attacked them wa Was sentenced to twenty Years nt A tie tI L A tie tI L n na ve Miranda was tried on four charges A hand bond under hi his lea lead ambushed robbed Ind and killed two j brothers Later the accused led hod band against the country house of a natIve set Bet It afire loot looted Id its contents contente and carried or oft Into the felds fields three daughters of at time the owner robbing them their of theIr Three days later hi band attacked the town resIdence ol 01 the same native natle and thoroughly I it Is Ills lae crime WAS th murder oj 01 1 a native named who frequent II n a gambling house kept b by Miran das Inamorata for the sole reason thai had not paid a gambling debt Miranda was S to be hanged Three nates natives were trie tried with the murder of 01 Private Henry P F Shafer company I L Seventeenth Infantry tr try ThEY were sentenced to be hange hanged but this was commute commuted by MacArthur In the eRt case of two to or theta them to imprisonment for le life and In the cast caI of time the other on one to imprisonment for tor twenty years t Jose JOKe the the Pueblo of Tune under the system established by tIme tho American govern goern while exercising time tho of hil his olce elliot became cognizant ot or the or organization of at a hand In a I neighboring barrIo for tor the tho purpose of attacking the garrison of nineteen American stationed at TUllO le lie traitor traitorously olor cooperated wih with the leader lealler of hand advised as aa to the most Olt aus timo to make nn an attack Inter intercepted n a sent to war time the and od treacherously abused the trust ot of his olce lie Ho was as sentenced to III be confined at lalor labor for twenty years Do De Gum Gula vice presIdent of while returnIng In a I a natIve vehicle frol train Suit was vas let set upon b by ann a an tv tive ball band They struck the tho coachman senseless and carried ol oit the vice Ic president dent and his two to young sons who were wih with hll him at the tho time Some distance off of t they hey shot him dead deall before time the eyes ees of his children anti flung ung his body olly on onn ona n a pie pile of rocks mocks A number of at the band who IIII were captured were sentenced to tobe tobe be hangel hanged Three natives were tried jointly on a 0 charge charRo of n a part of en an ared armed hand of which forced an en entrance trance Into the ot of a natIve nathe robbed I it of mone money jewelry and other alua valuables bieR bles to forced reed those III the tho to come out hound bound and the men and the They were son Hen to Imprisonment at hard labor for twenty City Star |
