The Butler weekly times., 1893-03-23
PIRATES WIPED OUT.
sixty Killed While the Hearts of Two
Were Taken out an Eaten.

The steamship City of Rio De JAN
eiro arrived to day from Yokohama
aud Hong Kong. A Yokohama pa
per prints the following account of
the determination Of pirates in a
Chinese village last January:
On January Is, last two piratical
crafts having run into one of the
numerous inlets in the vicinity of
Shehpu, called Fan tu, for shelter,
some of the pirates landed ostensi
Iy for the purpose of making few
purchases. 1t SO happened that
some of the pirates who landed that
day were recognized by the inhabi-
fants who, however, held their
tongues while the pirates were in
sight. No sooner had the men re-
turned to their iunks than the alarm
was silently given and the principal
then of the village Immediately call
ed two brothers who were officers
belonging to regiment garrisoned
ct Ningho. At a consultation held
the brothers were asked to lead a
Body of their fellow villager who
had determined to wreak summary
vengeance on their uuwelcome visi
tors.
Accordingly 800 we'll armed men
surprised the pirates during rag
ing of the storm in the early hours
of the morning. The two pirate
iuuks were surrounded. In another
minute the two junks swarmed with
the dark figures of the villagers who
amid the shouts of their companions
ON the shore bust open the matches
and doors of the cabins, and poured
q stream of bullets upon the fifty or
sixty pirates who were huddled to-
gether upon the lower decks Of the
iuuks. They were thoroughly taken
by surprise, hardly any resistance
was made, all the pirates being IA =
most hacked to pie ces by the exas-
perated villagers. who had suffer. d
before from pirates.
The two pirates who were not
treated this way, however, were
made way with in different manner.
1t seemed that among the many vii
iagers who had been killed by the
pirates on different occasions there
happened to be one who was a son
of the patriarch of the village and
SO that morning at daylight the two
pirates, escorted by the whole com
munity, were led to the grave of the
young man, and after being secured
to a couple of stakes put up for the
purpose, two of the nearest relatives
of the dead man plunged their
knives into the breasts of the un-
suoky pirates and ripping open Their
bodies extricated their hearts which
We're put smoking hot on plate al d
placed on table, upon which Were
already lighted candles and an in
Gense burned. While all this was
going on the relatives of the deceas
ed, dressed in mourning colors of
white, were gathered by the side OF
the grave crying aud calling on the
spirit of the dead to receive the sac.
sifice that was being offered as ven,
geance had been taken on his mur
derers. The offerings We're then
left at the grave at the end of the
ghastly ceremonies and the villagers
proceeded to ransack the junks, af
ter having first thrown the bodies
overheard into the sea.
The plunder of the junks, gold,
silver, rice, silks and satins, was
then equally divided among the fam
alics who had suffered at the hands
of the pirates previously, and as a
finale of the last act of the tragedy.
the junks were towed into the stream
and set on fire and burned to the
waters edge. The bodies of the
two victims of the sacrifice were al
so thrown into the sea, while theil
hearts were afterwards cooked ant
eaten by the dead mans relatives
and whoever desired to do SO.
Believes in a ProtectOrate Only.