STONED TO DEATH
FATE OF MAHOMMEDAN PEIEST.
BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT
Received Sept. 17, 12.5 p.m. DELHI, Sept. 16. An authentic report from Kabul states that a Maliommedan priest belonging to the Apostolic sect was publicly stoned to death in the heart of the city by order of tlie High Court, confirmed by the Amir, for declaring that the founder of the sect was a second Messiah. The accused refused to recant even when buried to , the waist in the public square, the populace delightedly stoning him. He was soon buried under a pile of stones. The, execution has aroused, indignation among his co-sectarians in India.— Sydney Sun Cables.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 17 September 1924, Page 9
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