HORRIBLE CRIME
HELPLESS MEN BATTERED AND SHOT.
(Received March 17, 10 a.m.)
CAPETOWN, 16th March.
The- Johannesburg Star..ha& obtained from a wounded official of the Brakpan mine a story of the murder of the other officials after the attack on the mine on "Friday. The details are reminiscent of the days of the savage Zulu chief Dingaan. The official states that the garrison had already surrendered when a mob of Beds a.pproa-ched, and one ruffian fired at and killed a man. Another man was also shot dead. ■ The Reds then started bashing three other officials with their rifles, and (is they were Iving on tho ground unconscious owing to "the battering they had received, voices cried "Let us shoot them." Several shots were fired at them as they lay, with fatal effect. ■
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Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 63, 17 March 1922, Page 7
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132HORRIBLE CRIME Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 63, 17 March 1922, Page 7
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