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Show Filipinos Convicted of Cannibalism. Cannibalism has appeared in the varied list of crimes charged against Filipinos by American military courts. Raymundo Fonte, a native of the Vi-sayas, Vi-sayas, found his working companion, Liberato Benliro, sleeping in his (Fonte"s)boat. Fonte became enraged, killed the slumbering man with a blow of an oar, cutoff his nose and ears and, according to his own confession cooked and ate part of the body. He was sentenced to be banged at Capiz, Panay, on the 13th inst. |