Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1901-06-20
BY THE PHILIPPINE MAIL.
Records in the Cases of Filipinos
Convicted by Military Courts
of Atrocious Crimes.
DETAILS OF SEVERAL NOTABLE CASES.
The Filipino bandits Prove Them.
selves to re Capable OF the Most
Horrible Crimes, which Must be
Met with Determined Repre-si,s
Measures.

Washington. June IA PhilipPin,
mail brings 10 the war department
the records in II eases wherein Fill.
pinos were tried by military commits.
sious on charges including murder,
criminal assault, kidnapping. assault
and battery, burglary, and violation
of the rules of war.
An Especially Notable Case.
An especially notable case arose oct
OF the operations of a famous oath.
bound band of Filipinos called the So.
ciety Of the Sandatahans." The prin.
cipal Office of this society, next to a
! trumvirate of chiefs. are u chief eN.
ecutioncr and assistants, and requi-
site number of grave diggers, who
participate IN the self.appointed work
of the band. The leaders select their
victim, capture and carry him away
In the night 10 secret rendezvous,
on sandy beach covered with very
tall grass, where the diggers already
have prepared the grave. Here. i'm the
presence of the assembled band. help
less 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 aud fall of the nearby wa
ters to hide the evidence of their /
ghastly work. Fen members of ,hC !
band, including two of the chiefs. !
were tried before a military commits
sion, and eight of them were sen. |
fenced TO he hanged.
In apprp' Ihg the sentence. Gen.
Macarthur says:
ITO the re- iewing authority il IL |
evident thai there can be no hope %, |
peace for the Filipino people. nor Sc
curity for their lives and property.
until they shall learn to unite against
nil bands of murderers and assassins,
under whatever name they shall a.
SEINE. and c'mc TO The assistance OF
the officers of the law in their de-
10 bring them all tn Jus.
tice."
seven Were Nas.acred.
In another case an armed band OF
about 25 Filipinos carried away nine
Of the inha bitants of the Barrio of
Casantulairan. and by repeated blows
from the butts of their rifles drove
them 10 the presidencia of Cabaruan.
Here all hands drank freely of vino,
and the prisoners were made drunk.
Then, according 20 the testimony of
two of the prioners. who escaped, the
other seven were led off in the direc-
ton of grove of trees, where, two
days later, their beheaded bodies were
discovered. The mbers of the band
who were captured received sentences
Of death in some cases. and imprison-
nent at hard labor for varying terms
n others.
-Four native policemen who had been
tent 10 gather wood for a detachment
Of American troops were set upon, 1
Jne Of their number was killed and
mother lost his arm. 4 member Of
he band which attacked them was
TO 20 years Imprisonment.
Tried on Four Charges.
A native named Miranda was !
RED on four charges. \ band. under i
lis leadership, ambushed, robbed and !
TILED two native brothers. Later the y
'ccused led his band against the coun- {
ry house of a native, set il afire. 8
Dotted it's contents, and carried off \
nto the field three daughters of the q
'wner. robbing them of their iewelrv. 5
hree days later his band attacked r
he town residence of the same native i
nd thoroughly sacked il. His last 1
rime was the murder of native
AIMED Abelino, who frequented ]
ambling house kept by his inamorata.
or the sole reason that Abelino had I
OF paid gambling debt. Miranda
vas sentenced to be hanged.
Murdered nm American Soldier.
Three natives were tried, CHARGED
nth the murder of Private Henry F. L
hafer. Co. l., Seventeenth infantry. j
hey were sentenced to be hanged. q
ut this was committed by Gen. Mac a
.rthur, in the case of two of them. =
imprisonment for life, and in the \
ase OF the other one to imprison- 4
ient for 20 years. :,
TraitorOus OmcIaL
Jose Baligod. the president-elect Of X
ueDlo OF Iuao, uDoer the system es- M
ibhshed by the American govern. 9,
-NNA''SihB NHt luntIlODS | n
his Office, became cognizant of the I,
rganization of a band in a neighbor-
X barrio for the purpose of attacS- n
Y the small garrison of 10 American | p
1ldiers stationed at Tuao. He trai. {,
Irously co-operated with the lead
Of the band, advised him as TO the
Iost suspicious time TO make an a.
'ck, intercepted "A messenger sent TO ei
arm the Americans, and otherwise Il.
abused the trust Of his /,
lice. He was sentenced TO be CON IL
ned at hard labor for 20 years. m
set Upon by Natives. ~,
Severino de Guia, vice-president of ef
acoor. while returning in n CARO- 81
alta "a native vehicle) from Sanni-
'las, Cavite province, was set upon
? native band. They struck the
senselcss. and carried OF of
lie vice-presidente and his two young fu
ms, who were with him at the time. tn