The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-06-18
ATROCITIES G F|uP|NOS
HORRIBLE CRUELTEEs ARE PERPE-
TRATED ON AMERICAN SOLDIERS
AND UNARMED AMIGOS
PUNISHMENT Is METED OUT
Official Report to War Departme emit
of Convictions and Sentences
by Courts-MartlaI for
Many Grimes.

WASHINGTON, June TIA Philippine
mail brings to the department records
in ten cases wherein F'iHpinos were tried
on charges including murder, rape, kid
naping, assault and battery, burglary
and violation of the rules Of war.
An especially notable case arose out Of
the operations of a famous oath-bound
band of FiItpinos called the Society OF
''Sandatahands." The principal officers
of this society, next to a triumvirate Of
Chiefs are a chief executor and assist
ants, and a requisite number Of grave
diggers, who participate in the self-ap-
pointed work of the band The leaders
select their victims, capture and carry
him away in the night to a secret rem
devious on a sandy beach covered with
very tall grass, where the diggers al
ready have prepared the grave. Here,
in the presence OF the assembled band,
helpless men and women from time to
time have been stabbed to death and
tossed into the graves. The members of
the band then dispense and trust to the
rise and fall of the nearby waters to
hide the evidence Of their ghastly work
Ten members of the band, including two
Of tie chiefs, were tried before a mill
tary commission and eight of them were
sentenced to be hanged. In approving
the sentences Gen Macarthur says
ITO the reviewing authority 1t is evil
dent that there can be no hope of peace
for the Filipino people, nor security for
their lives and property, until they shall
learn to unite against all bands of MUIR
derers and assassins under whatever
name they shall assume and come to the
assistance Of the officers of the law in
their determination to bring them all to
justice"
In another case an armed band of
about twenty-five Filipinos carried away
nine Of the inhabitants of the barrio Of
Casantulacian, and by repeated blows
from the butts Of their rifles drove them
to the presidencia of Cabaruan. Here
all hands drank freely of vino and the
prisoners were made drunk. Then ,ac-
cording to the testimony Of two Of tho
prisoners who escaped, the other seven
were led off in the direction Of grove
Of trees, where two days later their be-
headed bodies were discovered. The
members of the band who were captured
received sentences Of death in some cases
and Imprisonment at hard labor for vary
ing terms in others
Four native policemen who had been
sent to gather wood for detachment Of
American troops were set upon, one Of
their number was killed and the other
lost his arm. The members Of the band
captured were sentenced to twenty years
Imprisonment.
a native named Miranda was tried on
four charges. A band under his leader
ship ambushed, robbed and killed two
native brothers. Later the accused led his
band against the country house of a ma
tive, set 1t on fire, looted its contents and
carried off into the fields the three
daughters of the owner, robbing them Of
their jewelry. Three days later his band
attacked the town residence Of the same
native and thoroughly sacked it, His last
crime was the murder of a native named
Abelino, who frequented gambling
mouse kept by his animorita, for the sole
reason that Abelino had not paid a
gambling debt Miranda was sentenced
to be hanged.
1hree natives were tried, charged with
the murder of Private Henry e. Shafer.
Company L, Seventeenth infantry. Thev
were sentenced to be hanged, but this
was committed by Gen. Macarthur in the
case OF two of them to imprisonment for
me- and in the case of the otner one
TO Imprisonment for twenty years
Jose Baligod, the presfdente-elect of the
pueblo Of Tuao under the system estab-
nshed by the American government while
exercising the functions of his office be-
came cognizant Of the organization of
band IN neighboring barrio for the
purpose of attacking the small garrison
of nineteen American soldiers stationed
at Tuao. He traitorously co-operated
with the leader of the band, advised him
as to the most suspicious time to make
an attack, Intercepted message sent to
warn the Americans and otherwise
treacherously abused the trust Of his off
flee. He was sentenced to be confined at
hard labor for twenty years.
Severino de Guia, vice presidente Of
Bacoor, while returning in carbonate
Ga native vehtcle), from San Nicolas
CaY1te province, was set upon by q ma
tive band. They struck the coachman
senseless and carried off the vice presI-
dente and his two young sons, VINO vera
with him at the time. Some distance off
they shot him dead before the eyes of
his children and flung his body In a pile
or rocks. A member Of the band who was
captured was sentenced to be hanged.
Three natives were tried Jointly on
charge of being part Of an armed band
OF robbers which forced an entrance
into the home of a native, robbed it Of
money, jewelry and other valuables
forced the inmates to come out Of the
house, bound and maltreated the men and
brutally assaulted the women. Two Of
them were sentenced to imprisonment at
hard labor for twenty years and the
other to imprisonment at hard labor for
term of ten years.
SURRENDER OF CABLES.
MANILA, June 17.-Gen Sumner has
returned here from Santa Cruz province,
where he had been negotiating for the
surrender of Gen. Cables He confirms
the dispatch of the Associated Press of
Sunday, June 16, announcing that the
preliminaries of the surrender OF the in
surgent leader have been arranged.
Cables is collecting his scattered troops.
OF these 147 will surrender Wednesday
and the rest will give themselves up next
Monday. Coils. Gueverra and Infante. the
representatives Of Cables, assured Gen
Sumner that Gen. Cables was acting in
good faith. Infante was previously an ir-
reconcilable and, though he was the last
to advise surrender, he told Gen. Sumner
of his determination to bring in everey
gun.
There have been several sharp skir-
nlishes in Bohol since the departur OF
the Forty-fourth regiment The condI-
lions in Cebu are still backward.
1t is officially reported that insurgsut
bands with American deserters are going