A FAMILY OF MURDERERS.
AMAZING CRIME STORY FROM SOUTH AFRICA.
Johannesburg, September 15.
An amazing story of crime comes from j Calvinia, Cape Colony, a village which " can claim the unenviable distinction of possessing a single family five members of which have been charged with murder or attempted murder. Jacob Swart has just been found guilty of kicking his wife to death and sentenced to death. A second member of the family was found guilty of the attempted murder of a farmer, but the jury held that he was insane at the time of the crime
Leah Swart was found guilty of murdering a child which she had been nursing. She was sentenced to death, but in her case the sentence was reduced to penal servitude for life.
The most sensational case was that of two of the Swart brothers, who were arrested for theft, whereupon they shot dead the policeman who made the arrest and strangled a farmer who accompanied them. The iwo desperadoes then took to flight, but were folioived by two policemen into the wilds of North-West Cape Colony, where the country was so barren that both pursuers and pursued were forced to feed on roots. Eventually the fugitives were captured and hanged.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 144, 5 November 1912, Page 2
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206A FAMILY OF MURDERERS. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 144, 5 November 1912, Page 2
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