RED INDIAN CRUELTY.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXII, Issue 9022, 9 December 1907, Page 4

RED INDIAN CRUELTY.

Terrible talcs of Red Indiau cruelty are told by the Tribuuo correspondent at Ottawa, in his telegram concerning the trial of two Indian chiefs of the Salteux tribe at Norway House, in the Keewatin district. The case brought to light a terrible story of wholesale strangulation and burning practised by the Natives to rid themselves of the sicE and useless members of the tribe. One of the chief strangled himself before the trial ended, and the other has been sentencod to be hanged. Two brothers, named Eyelids and Angus Bao, described five cases of strangulation and burning which they themselves participated. The bodies in two instances were quietly buried, while tho other three victims were thrown upon a large firo. In one instance the strangulation was only partial, and, indeed, was not intended to bo comploto, for the victim was bound with leather thongs and placed over a fire until the thongs burst with the heat. Tho poor creature, enveloped in flames, then ran howling through tho woods, and was afterwards despatched with shot guns by his friends. The crimes in question occurred in a remote part of the northern wilds, towards the Hudson Bay settlement, which has never been thoroughly explored by whites.