CRIMINAL GANGS.
EXTRAORDINARY STATE OF .'•. -AFFAIRS.
By •HeLezr&DTx— Prw ARsncintton—OoDrriehl -':';.' London, February 18, Tho "Daily Mail's" Cape Town correspondent says .the Union Justice Department'has issued a statement showing that native- convicts have been binding themselves in gangs for criminal purposes. The organisations compnso a king, a judge, a fighting general," a medical officer, and'warriors, A trial was hold, punishments decreed and death sentences inflicted in j some cases by. stabbing with a ... sharpened! nail, strangling with A wet towel, or putting powdered glass in tlip victim's food. 'The .organisations,, which are chiefly Zulu, terrorise the natives,into membership. -. '■'■/'.•.. ' ■ "
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1989, 20 February 1914, Page 7
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97CRIMINAL GANGS. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1989, 20 February 1914, Page 7
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