MOCK EXECUTION THAT BECAME REAL.
JiKIUJX, ’Ail”;. 12. A number of schoolboys had a jjamo i.l wild Indians yesterday ai :i town ill 1 lanover. A lioy of I t mill his brother of 10 protended t ) h.‘ cowboys, mill after an oxciinu; chase lassoed a miniher of Imys who pretended to lie Indians. Kvcry captive was tied to a tree to it..'ait execution.
When a number had been secured the youthful cowboys blazed at them with revolvers and killed six.
They had thought the revolvers were loaded with blank cartridges.
TTRK WEDDING COD!
CONSTANTINOPLE. Aug. 12,
Having abolished the ancient- right of the Turk to have more than one wife, the .litdtei.il Rcfoim Commission, which is drawing tip a now Turkish marriage ‘code, has to-day adopted the following |.rop >.sals: Theft* .shall lie no resort to the courts for liretu-h of ] roiuise. It shall he illegal for a man to marry the wife of another man.
A marriage for a provisional term shall not lie valid.
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Hokitika Guardian, 26 September 1924, Page 2
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167MOCK EXECUTION THAT BECAME REAL. Hokitika Guardian, 26 September 1924, Page 2
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