Show trade women and children aildred ca for animals an I 1 mal s sudden death Is commonplace in remote districts of mindanao Af manila artila there Is a simplicity about the barbarous customs of the pagan inhabitants of interior and other scarcely scratched districts of mindanao that Is almost naive despite ithe hc law anil and the ubiquity ot of constabulary stab patrols human life Is cheap sudden death Is commonplace women are bartered and children are and sold into slavery one day bay in march a lla LIgdo nan by name was taking ills his ease in his bamboo hut in the Cabang lasan valle his wife and daughter julia were preparing food Cum obay the son was also in the hut busy on some household duty presently along the trail from sitio macuitl came lom itay aitay Man Mandl dinogan nogan and alan bl bi nalda both former acquaintances ot of Ligdo nam the latter invited the visitors to enter and partake of the meal which shortly would be served suddenly attacks host for some time the three men squatted on the floor smoking and talking the roving eyes of took in the contents of the shack including the wife and the daughter daug liter julia who though young was pleasant to see A girl of some price evidently so thought amitay and with a swift spring lie he unsheathed hta his bolo and slashed at LIgdo nan all unprepared the man had no chance the keen heen blade clove through his right arm ann to the shoulder and even penetrated his side to his lungs for a few minutes the stricken man w writhed on the floor while his life blood poured through the bamboo slats to the ground below terrified the wife and lier her two children tried toes cape but the assailants tripped them and held them struggling thereupon three accomplices stog mandalay SIan Man danay and a man unknown abo had been hiding in a nearby near by creek came up and helped to tie the hands of the three prisoners behind their backs the five raiders ra aders after they had eaten their fill departed with their captives and took them by devious trails through the wilderness until they reached the bank of the river rulan Pulan pl gf where the party divided llan danay and tile the unknown man acquired the mother and the daughter obtained possession of in exchange tor for a horse boy escapes most probably reads the report tile the woman Mah and her daughter julia were taken to uta yan or some other remote place pince where here they could be bartered for animals was taken to the house of Saya nap where lie he was held a prisoner tied down to the floor however during the third night when all others in the houst house were sleeping the boy contrived to loosen his bonds and escape through a window traveling only by night and hiding in the jungle by day lie made his way back to cabang lasan and brought the news to the lie councilor there the motive of tile the crime Is tell eved to be no other than that of an old practice of the wild tribes which still prevails in certain parts of the interior it Is reported that in dabao pro pronce province Nince Is a market center where these wild pagans meet and exchange human captives for beasts and vice versa A patrol under ber berleant geant bersamin seventy alith company was at once dispatched to bawa to investigate the case and gather such information a would enable the authorities to deal dea witt with tile lie situation |