REBEL SUPERSTITIONS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXIX, Issue 111, 14 May 1906, Page 2

REBEL SUPERSTITIONS.

MAKING FIGHTERS INVULNER-

ABLE

A CHARM THAT FAILED

(Received May 13, 10.34 a.m.)

-riETIfIItMAItJTZBURG, May 12. Prior to the Fort Yolland fight the rebels killed a Nonquai female chil 1, and used her body to make medicino wherewith to render the fighters invulnerable against bullets. They also put a Nonquai boy in the forefront of the fight, believing that this would complete, the charm.

The boy's father was one of Colonel Mansell's nonquais, and on seeing his son, rushed up to the rebel lines and rescued his son, assegaing the rebel who tried to prevent the capture of the boy.