NATIVE MURDERERS.
HORRIBLE AFRICAN AFFAIR. FOUR SENTENCED TO DEATH. V'ress Association—Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received 9.55 a.m.) Johannesburg, August G. The trial has concluded of seven natives, members of a Society who organised a band of Native murderers and robbers, and murdered a miner and his wife and child, who accident'ally disturbed the horrible iminoralties of the Society's ritual. Four were sentenced to death. The evidence showed that the crime was the result of a huge illicit trade in liquor, which resulted in a general demand for stringent liquor legislation. , The authorities removed .the trial to Pretoria, fearing that the accused would be lynched.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 7, 7 August 1916, Page 2
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106NATIVE MURDERERS. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 7, 7 August 1916, Page 2
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