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Show ESKIMO SLAYING DUE TO WOMAN SHORTAGE OTTAWA. Jan. (By the Associated Asso-ciated Press.) From out of the frozen north beyond tho farthest out-pOSt out-pOSt Of c ivilization ante the details supplying the background for the recently re-cently reported murder of five Eskl-moea, Eskl-moea, Including a four-year-old girl, because of the desire of one man for another man's wife. Thin desire, It was explained by Royal Canadian Mounted police, who unearthed the crime, was duo to a shortage of women In the barren Ice-la Ice-la tins And this shortage, they added, la tho outcome of an Eskimo custom, but recently abandoned, whereby female fe-male children were put to death be-cauae be-cauae of the shortage of food and the unwritten Eskimo law that only the most useful members of a community should be permitted to live. Therefore, There-fore, young girls, requiring more care and being ( less use than boys, were condemned to die. Details of the quintuple murder have Just been received here from I Police Corporal Doa.lt, who is combing comb-ing the territory :ilong 75 degrees north latitude In an attempt to bring the culprit td justice The crime took place August 1 about 30 miles nortn-east nortn-east of the Hudson Bay company's post in Walker bay, Kent peninsula. |