Show no INTO THE mm P I 1 RATES I 1 japanese villagers exterminate mutineers Muti Z M E T THEIR DEATH BY KNIVES in the hands of relatives or their s victims tho the hearts odthe men en cut from their bodlos bodies BAN FRANCISCO march 15 13 the at stam atam am ship city of luo illo de do janeiro arrived today arora yokohama and hong kong A yokohama paper prints an account of the ex termination of a band of pirates in a chinese tillage village on the fifteenth of january last to two piratical crafts ran into one of the name nume rous inlets in in the vicinity of the city of fan tu for shelter from a blinding snow storma storm and having made all snag snug a longside of tile beach ome of the pirates landed it so happened that some were lecog recognized nihed bv by the tile inhabitants of the village ft ho bo had bad suffered ufler ed from front the depredations lations of the pirates no sooner had the tile men returned to their junks ihen an ail 1 alarm art n was silently given and the principal mei men of the village determined to wreck ft reck summary vengeance on the unwelcome and frequent visitors accordingly thre hundred well armed villagers villa gers sur priced i the pirates pirate 1 burst open the batches and doors of the cabins and nd poured a stream of bullets upon the fifty or pirates who ho huddled together for warmth on the lower decks of their junks hardly any resi resistance stanco was as made all 11 the pirates but two being almost hacked into mince meat n i e a t by the exasperated villagers these two pirates by the whole com were led to the granof a young man atho who was waa murdered in in a previous raid by the pirates and after being secured to a couple of stakes the two nearest ives of the bend suan plunged knives into the breasts of the and ripping open their bodies extricated their hearts which were then put oil to plate and placed on a table apoll which were already ai I 1 it I 1 e d candles slid an incense burner title all this was going on oil tho the female relatives of the deceased dressed in ili mourning colors of white gathered by tho side of the grave frying r ying and calling out to iho the spirit of the dead lead to receive the tile sacrifice ac that was being offered the offerings u 4 were left nt at the ei iding lie ceretti onies slid grave the c vil 1 agers roc ceded did to ransack the pi piratical junk junks after having first thrown ile bodies overboard into the sea tile plumb r taken front be junks con aisted silver cash bilks gatins tatins and rice chwi were equally divided among the tr families alies who haie have ever minered i at the hands of the pirates pirate 1 and as a finale las act of the tragedy the jun jubbs ks vere were towed into the tile stream anti and set on tire fire and burned to the waters edge the hearts of the tile victims sacrificed were ere afterwards afterward li cooked and eaten by the lie dead mans mails relatives or those who desired to do so |