AN AFRICAN TRAGEDY.
WITCHCRAFT THE MOTIVE. By Telegraph Press Association..—Cc London.; December 12. News from Uganda states that two chiefs have been sentenced to death for procuring the death of a British official. They hired a native to kill Mr. Gait, under the belief that two deaths from smallpox, one of the victims being British, had been due to .with craft. After Mr. Gait's death" they killed a man hired by him with a view to silencing him. : >:•'
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 13049, 14 December 1905, Page 5
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78AN AFRICAN TRAGEDY. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 13049, 14 December 1905, Page 5
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