SUTTEE IN INDIA.
» \ . ABETTORS TERRIFIED BY A WOMAN'S CURSES. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Delhi, August 19. Four Indians have been sentenced to eighteen months' and two years' imprisonment respectively for abetting a widowin the observance of sutteo (the immolation of a wife on the funeral pyre of her husband) before fifteen hundred spectators. The prisoners were terrified into helping the woman to thus commit 6uicide because she threatened to invoke curses on them if . they did not do as she asked.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1833, 21 August 1913, Page 7
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80SUTTEE IN INDIA. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1833, 21 August 1913, Page 7
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