Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 December 1909 — FOURTEEN TO BE EXECUTED [ARTICLE]

FOURTEEN TO BE EXECUTED

Condemned Men Are Members of the Filipino Constabulary. Manila, Dec. 10. —Fourteen men of the Second company of native constabulary, stationed at Davao, Mindanao, which mutinied on the night of June 6, were sentenced to death after being convicted of murder. The murder charge was based on the killing of Roy Libby, a planter, when the mutineers attacked the town. The executions will take place on Davao plaza, the scene of the uprising. Twenty-three men mutinied, eight of whom were killed resisting arrest, While one turned state’s evidence.