MURDER AND CANNIBALISM
LONDON, July 29. In connection with the trial by the Chief Justice (Sir William Griffith) of the members of the Leopard Society on the Gold Coast of West Africa the evidence showed that in order to prepare a medicine with some special virtue human fat was required. This led to an astounding number of murders. The members of the society, disguised in leopard skins, usually attacked their victims from behind, thrusting three-pronged forks into their necks and severing the spinal cord. Many of the victims were eaten, cooked with rice, or raw, according to taste. The Leopard Society existed among: a tribe known as the Mcndes, and was a secret organisation that had long been causing trouble to the Government of Sierra Leone. The terrorism exercised is said to have equalled that of the “ Long Ju-ju ” cult, and men. won* ” did not conform to its rites or submit to its demands were subject to death or slavery. A few of those convicted are said to have been professed converts to Christianity, and to have been actively engaged in the work of the Churrth, but confirmation of this was not obtained.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3099, 6 August 1913, Page 25
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