CONGO CANNIBALS.
CONVICTED OF MURDERS. EIGHT TO BE EXECUTED. Eight “human leopards,” says the Brussels correspondent of the Times, have been sentenced to death, two to 20 years in gaol and six others to lesser terms. The accused had been convicted of murders followed by feasts on human flesh in the Belgian Congo. It was thought originally that the murders were “ritual* crimes,” but ethnologists decided that the “human leopards” are not a sect. The murders, of which there have been 85 since 1928, were due to a vendetta.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 313, 2 December 1933, Page 12
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89CONGO CANNIBALS. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 313, 2 December 1933, Page 12
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