Eureka Reporter | 1902-11-14 | Page 2 | His Ears Cut Off

HI HIS EARS CUT OFF Bor example of craft and act D Impat ie patches ebes from skagway and jun eau give brief details of a horrible ex mple of witchcraft and superstition in the hoonah hookah indian village forty miles d slant from juneau though quite and peaceable the hoonah hookah in deans are very superstitions and nearly every year one or more suffers death violently several days ago the indians took a man who was believed to be possessed of the devil and made him the victim of frightful atrocities his ilia ears were cut off and his body frightfully hacked in an unsuccessful effort to drive out the demon the victim was troubled with epileptic eol eni leptic fits fit which continued fie ile was finally buried alive in the earth and his scalp cut off inch by inch officers have hurried to the scene from juneau on a special steamer