CONVERTS DROWNED
MURDER UIIA RG F,S A G AIN ST NATIVES (fly Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.) CAPETOWN. Jan. 20. The trial lias begun tit Broken Hill, in Northern Rhodesia, of twenty-seven native members of the. sect known ns “Watch Tower.’ They are charged with drowning twenty-two natives, mostly women, during baptism. Tne central figure is a native Tomo N; indent, known in the Congo as MwaiN;lesa the son of God, and who has lost both arms. The Crown case is that accused baptised converts by immersion, informing them that anyone not baptised was a wizard or witch. Sometimes they held the converts under the water till drowned, anil issued a warning that anyone giving information would die.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 21 January 1926, Page 5
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119CONVERTS DROWNED Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 21 January 1926, Page 5
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