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Show BARBARITY OF FILIPINOS. Native Captured by Outlaws are Burled ; Alive la a Well, j Many Filipinos who accept service Under American rule are visited with awful vengeance by their fellow countrymen. coun-trymen. The records of a case have, been received at the war department (in which three native policemen, who had been sent from Laoag to San Nicholas, Ilocos North, for duty at the Jatter port, were seized and bound by an armed band of Filipino outlaws, taken before a priest to be confessed, and then flung- alive into a well, after being hacked with bolos. Their assailants as-sailants then filled up the well with loose earth. One of the band, Wen-ceslao Wen-ceslao Resales, who was brought to trial, was sentenced to be hanged. Another native policeman met his death at the hands of an outlaw band in the Barrio of San Autonia, Laguna I province. The outlaws were lying in' ambush awaiting the passage of a pa- trol of three policemen, and upon their approach the waiting Filipinos sprang out and captured one of the three. A few days latter his body was found in a neighboring river weighted with heavy rocks and showing wounds through bis heart and in his neck. Two of the members of the outlaw band, .who were caotured. wpi-p nin k a military commission to be hanged. Two Filipinos who took part in the :murder of an unknown native accused Of being an American spy, beheading the body and burying it in the city of Manila, were sentenced to be hanged. Another outlaw band seized a native man and woman for no apparent motive mo-tive and killed them by striking them with clubs on the back of their necks. |