A HINDU RITE.
WIDOW BECOMES SUTTEE. ABETTORS SENT TO PRISON. by Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright Received this day, 11.5. Delhi, Tuesday. Four Indians have been sentenced to terms ranging from eighteen months to two years tor abetting a widow to become suttee before fifteen hundred spectators. The prisoners were terrified into helping the woman to commit ruicide on her husband's funeral pyre, because she threatened to invoke curses.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 595, 20 August 1913, Page 5
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66A HINDU RITE. King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 595, 20 August 1913, Page 5
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