STONED TO DEATH.
Native Sent To Collect Money
From Chief.
RELIGIOUS FANATICS GAOLED
(Received 0.30 a.m.)
DURBAX, April 4.
Eleven native women were sentenced to six months, and 447 to three months' imprisonment for stoning a native man to death.
Five hundred white-robed religious fanatics, native women disciples of Chief Shembe, walked 12 miles from Verulam to Xatal to answer the charge of killing the man, who was sent to collect money from Shembe. The Court took place on a tennis court.
The women bound the. man jjind threw sticks, stones and burning wood at him. They admitted their cuilt.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 80, 5 April 1939, Page 11
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