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“ Kill Every One Over Ten – Gen . Jacob H . Smith ” Editorial Cartoon from the New York Journal , dated May 5 , 1902
their misfortune had been aggravated by the treachery of native porters accompanying the patrol . The Marines suspected the porters of conspiracy to mutiny , believing the porters could have foraged more aggressively for food . But evidence of the porters ’ mutiny is contradicted by their performance during the patrol , and by the very fact of the porters ’ voluntary return to base bearing the hapless Marines ’ rifles and ammunition . 23
While Waller and his Marines were running in circles in the uncharted jungles of southern Samar , rumors of a conspiracy to repeat the Balangiga affair in Basey circulated in the town , prompting Major Edwin F . Glenn , the brigade provost marshal and judge advocate responsible for counterintelligence , to arrest several noted town personalities , including the presidente municipal Joaquin Cabañas , parish priest Nicanor Acevedo , tax collector Petronillo Jacosalem , and a prominent businessman Nicolas Acevedo . The three of them - Cabañas , Jacosalem and Nicolas Acevedo – were subjected to torture known as the water cure 24 and died on January 5 , 1902 , while the priest Nicanor Acevedo was thrown into prison .
The water cure however produced nothing . It was Marcelino Apolinar , the replacement of Cabañas as presidente municipal , who turned in a spy to Waller when he arrived from the exhausting march on January
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