MURDERED BY NATIVES.
TRAGEDY OF THE VELDT. UNITED PBEKf I AMOOl^run. (Received 9.50 a.m.) Johannesburg, June 22. Four members oi the Nineveh gang of natives who were practising a hoiriblc ritual have oecn arrested in the Rand. They murdered John Smellie, a native of Aberdeen, and his wile and daughter, and other women were outraged. The victims were walking in the veldt and inadvertently witnessed the rites whereupon their death was decided on.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 67, 23 June 1916, Page 6
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73MURDERED BY NATIVES. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 67, 23 June 1916, Page 6
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