FATAL BAPTISMS
TRIAL OF AFRICAN NATIVES.
Cape Town, January 20.
The trial has begun at Broken Hill, Northern Rhodesia, of . twenty-seven natives, members of a sect known as “The Watch Tower,” who are charged with drowning twenty-two natives, mostly women, during baptism. The central figure is a native, Tomo Njindera, known in the Congo as “Mwanalesa,” Son of God. who has lost both arms. The Crown case is that the accused baptised converts by immersion, informing them that anyone not baptised was a wizard or a witch. Sometimes they held converts under water till they were drowned. They warned anyone giving information that he would die.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 100, 22 January 1926, Page 9
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108FATAL BAPTISMS Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 100, 22 January 1926, Page 9
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