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Show WHIPPED FILIPINO TO DEATH. Outrage Perpetrated by Native Officer During Regular Officer's Abeence. The war department is investigating charges that have been filed against Lieutenant Colonel Robert L. How-see, How-see, who was in command of a post in northern Luzon in 1899. The charge relates to cruelties to Filipinos allegations alle-gations being made that Lieutenant Colonel Howsee was cognizant of the fact that two natives were whipped to death, and that no punishment of the offenders was ordered. It is stated at the war department that so far as Investigated, it appears that the alleged al-leged outrage was perpetrated by a native na-tive officers while Colonel Howsee was absent after hostile Filipinos. The matter has been brought to the attention atten-tion of Colonel Howsee, and a partial reply made that an investigation at the time ehowed that only one native' had died, and that his death was not due to ill-treatment, but . to diabetes. |