Diabolical Conduct of two Missionaries.
(Special to Press Association )
London. October 25
The two missionaries-r-Fortunatus John and John Williams, and the wife of the former—tried by special Commission at -Sierra Leone for the manslaughter of a girl who was in their service, and whom they flogged almost to death, rubbing pepper into the wound? and leaving her and her companion, similarly treated, exposed to the sun until the one girl died, have been sentenced to twenty years' imprisonment, and the wife of the other man has also been sentenced to a shorter term as an accessory.
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Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4314, 28 October 1882, Page 2
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96Diabolical Conduct of two Missionaries. Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4314, 28 October 1882, Page 2
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