JUJU RITES.
PLOT BY NATIVES TO MURDER
[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.] (Received 9 a.m.) London, April 10. Nigerian advices state that a plot has been discovered to kill Amanry Talbot and his wife. Talbot, who is a Commissioner in the Calabor district, and a well-known authority on Juju rites, recently revealed irregularities in the Native Courts, the native clerks being guilty of swindling and other offences against the. women prisoners. The clerks and their friends summoned a meeting of chiefs, and arranged to murder the Talbots, but the plot miscarried. The practice, of Juju continues. A woman’s corpse was discovered in a sacred crocodile swamp prepared for sacrifice.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 80, 11 April 1913, Page 5
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110JUJU RITES. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 80, 11 April 1913, Page 5
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