THROWN TO THE LIONS.
London, October 10
The Daily Mail’s Fez correspondent says that the Pretender Bu Humara was not shot as was previously reported. A more terrible fate was reserved for him. His feet were chained and he was thrown into a garden where three starved lions were confined. He tried to climb a tree, but a lioness tore off his left arm. The soldiers then stabbed Bu Humara in the breast a dozen times. The lions, returning, toyed with the body as cats do with a mouse.
The Sultan and his court watched the torture from the window of the palace.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 493, 12 October 1909, Page 3
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103THROWN TO THE LIONS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 493, 12 October 1909, Page 3
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