Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1909 — NATIVES TO DIE FOR DEATH OF DR. JONES [ARTICLE]

NATIVES TO DIE FOR DEATH OF DR. JONES

Three Tribesmen -Tried and Are Oeclared to Be Guilty. Manila, May 28. —The trial of the native tribesmen who murdered Dr. William Jones, the noted anthropologist of the Field museum of Chicago, In Isabella province bn the island of Luzon last March, was concluded at Bayonbong. Three of the natives were sentenced to death. Dr. Jones was attacked and murdered by hostile Ilongotos near the headwaters of the Cagayan river while studying the customs of the tribes of the interior. A party sent out by the government recovered a large part of the valuable natural history specimens gathered, by the Chicago scientist dux-

to* his two years’ travel fa the island: