TRIAL OF CANNIBALS.
FORTY "LEOPARDS" TO BE HANGED. (Press Assn.— By Telegraph— Copyright.) (Received June 3. 10.20 a.m.) LONDON, June 2. i Mr Griffiths, Chief Justice of the Gold Coast, has arrived in London. -He has been conducting trials of one hundred natives belonging to the so^-call'ed j Leopard society, for practising cannibalism.
Mr Griffiths' fellow passengers on the steamer Nigeria state that he sentenced forty natives to be hanged, and many to deportation.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 13091, 3 June 1913, Page 3
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