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CASMUUUfta.A W HULK r A Ml I V HLAlN AN| BATKN{tocimkkmmk UermbL)■ Our Kdmoatou correspondent men Uoua the »rr**i .W a Uree Indian. who*coaiu* being Irenal* ted aignitiaath* Sa»|iIKueaae. un the horrible charge of havingkilled ami eaten Ilia whole family oon stating of hia mother, brother. «de amiUve childreu - during the past winter. Stuoe ih« loltor »aa stalled *• luvr received *.uk further particular*, which unfortunately gu far to prove the trutl. of the report.Sub Inspector Oagnou with • party of (lie police look the prisoner U. ih« aceue of the alleged atroaty, and thrre found the bonus ut all tho family hut one' They showed ibat they had Ixmlt;ii cooked —aoiua hy boiling and other* hy r a( lug thus establishing thu tltaigu ol aaiinabahtui; but a* to the charge «f luurder, we hare not heard uf any othei than at rung presumptive evidence ol hi*gujl. I ho |k1 loo were unable to hndtile remain* of one of thu victim*, and the prisoner refused In *ay anything about it a circumstance which i* natural ly construed to his disadvantage.Thu prisoner doe* not deny thu ac ctialioii of having eatun the bodies. but saya that In* uiothur, brotlior and thu ; I children died of ttarvatiou, and that hi* wife, weary of the suffering ahe w*« on during, shot heraoll. The charge brought against him, on thu olhur hand is, lh*i he killed hia w holu family, dried their Heat), and ale it at hi* leisure.If the prisoner does not prove to lm tt uasound milid—and we have not hoard that ho I*—ho exnibii* a degree ol thorough -going depravity that would secure him a high position near the i thrones «»f Huriuah or Dahomey. When tho police found the remain* he put hi*I llligera into thu eyeless Socket* •»( a scull.I and cooly remarked, 'this was my wdo I'ho acone of ihutragody i* only about aeveuty live miles from a settlement, an.I oven if the hunt had (ailed and there wore no friendly Indian* near at hand, II wa* not very tar to go f »r a d.From a gentium.hi who came d.-wu on tho Idly we learn that the Swift Kunner (hid u preliminary examination before Colonel .larvuion Monday last, when l»o con I cased to having killed and eaten his w ife and family, but utuiied having no dirposinl of bin mot her and brother lie h*jh they left In* camp and he doe* not kn »v where they are at present.
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Kingston Daily British Whig
Kingston, Ontario, CA
Wed, Jul 30, 1879
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