NIGERIAN MURDER PLOT.
♦ NATIVES AND JUJU RITES. By Telegraph—Preßs Association-Copyright London, April 10. Keuter's Agency states that Nigerian advices show that a plot was discovered to kill Mr. Amaury Talbot andlhis wife. Mr. Talbot is Commissioner in tho Calabar district, and a well-known authority on Juju rites. Ho recently revealed irregularities in tho Native Courts, in which nativo clerks-had been guilty of swindling and other offences against women prisoners. Tho clerks' friends summoned a meeting of tho chiefs, and arranged to murder tho Talbots, but tho plot miscarried. The Juju rites continue. A woman's corpse, prepared for sacrifice, lias been discovered in a sacred crocodile swamp.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1722, 12 April 1913, Page 7
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106NIGERIAN MURDER PLOT. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1722, 12 April 1913, Page 7
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