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Show FATHER EATS CHILD. Awful Story of Cannibalism Comes from the Far North. St. Johns, N. F. An Eskimo, driven to canibalism by starvation, ate his child, according to a story brought from the far north by the Hudson Bay company's steamer Adventure, which arrived with the crew of the lost Dundee Dun-dee whaler, Paradox. The man's 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 litte victim. vic-tim. When the man's neighbor's learned of 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. |