The sun., 1912-07-07

dams hands and legs tied together. and
IA. man or woman thus bound thrown
alive on n fire,
HE ALSO SAW INDIANS BURNED.
Alfred Hoyte. also Bar rbadian. stated:
He saw Indians burned alive. They
were hung up by Jitnenez. one OF the
ov-rseere, and burned alive, lie saw
this with his own eyes. He only raw one
burned alive like this "a man. Other
Indians he saw burned. hut they were
already dead. SeDor Jimenez ordered
the Indian to be hung up with his arms
Lehind has back and hau fire made
under nm and burned him alive and
then gave him n ball Pressed on the
point IA 10 whether others were not
burned a. different witnesses mad affirmed
to b. the case. Hoyte continued: There
was a woman burned alive also. He saw
people tiogs'd very badly and he had
known Indians deliberately starved to
death
clifford Quintin. a native Of Barbados.
otIt"d hr "had seen "A chief of section
cSii..d Aurelio Rodrigues shoot Indians.
men and women. and heave children into
the riv-r 10 drown. He saw plenty of
, indians fogeed men as we'll as women.
Sor,e Of them died before they were
finished getting licked they We're tied
out on four sticks One day they
came to an Indian house and caught all
TIA. Indians in it. There were men. women
and children. some Of them about
month old. quite small. All were killed
cxccp; the little children These were
.it alive in the house to die there, and
their mothers were killed. Normand cut
oil the heads of all these Indians. Then
once they found "A man and u little girl
quite small child. The man was taken
prisoner and the little girl was left III the
ho!-c alone, Sine had bad feet and could
not walk. and Rodrigues ordered him 10
shoot her refusing to allow them to carry
N" enid into the section and save her
Iif-. lie obeyed under threats and shot
the girl She saw him with the rife and
knew he was going 10 shoot her. lie shot
her III The left breast, and she lay on the
ground and died at once. She was left
tnere and not buried ~ all"
100 MANY 10 REMEMBER.
Here Is a final excerpt from the evidence
OF James Mapp. a Barbadian:
Witness had seen 81 many killed tha,
ne could no, remember all Of them. lie
had seen men. women and children killed
because they would not work rubber. Some
we're shot. some were beh~ad.d with Z
rach~te lie had seen women and chil-
drrn heheaded and the little babies taken
from theii moihersiand thrown away alive
to die thus at other times hey would srna ii,
their heads against trees or throw them
iato the river. onr man killed the Indians
for sport Ne hud lust returned home
aud after drinking saw some Indian pris
oners and INQUIRED where they came from
he was told thar they had not been lonl
caught lie called the boys and sent the
Indians out one by one to br killed. The,
were all shot man with one foot ~LC
could not walk was one of them. He wen
hopping along They had been starved
too before this After shooting them the,
had many burned also.
ALI. TELL THE SAME srOEY
There are any number OF witnesses
all of whom tell the same story OF bruta
and purposeless slaughter. Yet, remote
and inaccessible, the Putumayo did no
appeal to the outside world until at las
horrible 81 ories began to leak out
After investigation the British com
pany. acting on The best traditions, threv
up tho concession and went into volun
tary liquidation, Senior Arana, the orig
ihal concession naire and the chief share
no one can say that the evils are not evel
now going on.
The British Government 10 being preased
after giving the Easement report pub
: licity, to take remedial action Of som
kind, For unless something IL don
The natives will be eXterminated in les
than a decade. Recognizing that tn
United States il the best Power to rep
resent to Peru the urgent need for bette
control there has been considerabl
dIp'0matlC correspondence with wash
ington. Peru. however, stands hig
. In the good books of the United States
which, 1t il said, is not too desirous t
> exercise pressure.
But in any case the religious organi
cations Of this country have resolve
to take action, even il no one else does.
MISSION To HELP INDIANS,
, As result of the revelations regard
, ing the condition Of the Putumavo Ia
1 dianS as revealed in the report of Sir Roor
: as"nicn; IN 61pc al IN being made io
q the establishment of a mission in ia
4 district Al frs, il was hoped that
= would he possible Ia establish two mi.
: sions. on. IA Catholic and tho other
4 Protestant, and indeed n perfect syster
p or cooperation with goodwill on bot
= sides had been worked out between lead
4 ing men of both faiths in Great Britain
T. The british Government, however, know
Y ing that the Peruvian Government al
y fords no recognition 10 any church saw
{ tho Homnn Catholic requested iis Min
l-t"r AT Lima 10 report whether II Prot
, es'i"t m'sqion 20 " PuumHvo woil
/, roc i've facilities from "a" f.-lIvin
70 GnNorUm"ut ard Ahni would u, ,is pros
II ut,ts nj -I,,,Nr
- To this III" following trlegraphic repl
was received 49, " ~s~. .