ESKIMO JUSTICE.

Hokitika Guardian, 19 November 1929, Page 3

ESKIMO JUSTICE.

" 'MONTREAL. Oct. 3. An' extraordinary account the fatal TeJigious mania of a young Eskimo is given' bV the members of n police patrol who have returned from Southern Baffin Land - the large island opposite Greenland. ‘ Mn’-b G'ialv, npnarently a- victim of the fanaticism which has swept the Canadian Arctic at intervals duiing the past ten years, went mad. He shot dead his father and mother and n girl relative and tried to kill his brother. He toTd his relatives that he had been chosen as ya- --“purifier of the race” and that a Heavenly voice had commanded him to slay the whole tribe. He was overpowered, bound with sealskin thongs, and kept under giiMrii jn an ice-house all the winter. Gliak escaped twice, and when he was recaptured for the second time it was decided that, as all the men were tired of maintaining guard on him, he should be killed. He was brought before a tribal meeting aind given his choice of death by shooting, stabbing, or drowning. Gliak protested that lie bid not want to die, but bis judges cut a hole in the ice and pushed him through it to lifts death. It is .stated that no action will be taken by the Canadian Government as it is- considered that the Eskimos acted ia .self-defence.