A CANNIBAL CULT
SOCIETY OF THE LEOPARD. By Telegraph—Prcso Association-Copyright London, July 2a. In connection with the trial of members of the Leopard Society on the Cold Coast, tJio cvideiica showed that in order to prepare medicine with a special virtue human. fat was required. This led to an astounding number of murders. Members of tho society, disguised in leopards' skins, usually attacked their victims from behind, and thrust three-pronged forks into their necks, severing the spinal cord. Many of the victims wore eaten, cooked with rice, or raw, according to taste. Sir William Griffith, Chief Justice nf tlie Gold Coast Colony, recently conducted trials of a hundred natives belonging to tho so-called "Leopard Society," for practising cannibalism. Fertv natives wero sentenced to be hanged, and many wero deported.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1816, 31 July 1913, Page 7
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129A CANNIBAL CULT Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1816, 31 July 1913, Page 7
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