FIVE BASUTOS TO DIE FOR RITUAL MURDER
(10 a.m.) LONDON. Aug. 12. Four men and one woman were sentenced to death yeterday by Sir Walter Harragin, a Colonial High Court judge, for a ritual murder committed two years ago when they beat a man to death and then mutilated his body so that the witch doctor could make a magic potion for their chief, says the Daily Mail’s Basutoland correspondent. Two hundred Basutos watching the proceedings in multi-coloured blankets, chanted the tribal death song as the five convicted persons were taken from the court and 16 other Basutos were brought in to be charged separately with another ritual murder.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23023, 13 August 1949, Page 5
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