SENTENCED TO DEATH.
LEADER, OF RELIGIOUS FANATICS
BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT Received Jan. 27, 2.5 p.m. CAPETOWN, Jan. 26. Tho chief Tomo, who was charged with murder in connection with the Congo baptisms, was ..sentenced to death. —Sydney Sun Cable.
A. cable message last week ‘stated that tho trial bad begun at Broken Mill, in Southern Rhodesia, of twentyseven natives, members of a. sect known ils the Watch-tower. They were charged with drowning twenty-two natives, mostly women, during baptism. The central figure was the native Tomo Njindera. The Crown case was that the accused baptised converts by immersion, informing them that anyone not baptised was a wizard or a witch. Sometimes they held the converts under water till they Avere droivned and issued a. Avarning that anyone giving information avou ld die.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 27 January 1926, Page 9
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131SENTENCED TO DEATH. Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 27 January 1926, Page 9
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