HORRIBLE CASE OF CANNIBALISM.
A Cairo correspondent telegraphed on Wednesday :—Since the famine commenced in the Soudan, many Soudanese crossed the frontier and entered Wady Haifa begging for assistance. A good many of these poor people are being brought down to Cairo, where work is obtained for them. Amongst those lately arrived was a stout, strong negress, for whom a situation as nurse was obtained in a Coptic family. Everything went well until the master and mistress lelfc home for a few days, when the nurse indulged in ft luxury she had been deprived of for some time, and appeased her enormous appetite by killing and eating one of the children left in her charge. Burying the bead and bones, she told the neighbours that the child had been stolen. This tale was believed, as children are frequently kidnapped here. After two or three days her craving for human flesh returned, she killed another child, and was in the enjoyment of that horrible meal wjjen the parents returned. The cannibal was marched off to prison, where she now awaits her trail for murder.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 8360, 13 September 1890, Page 4 (Supplement)
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