STONED TO DEATH.
FATE OF A PRIEST. INCIDENT IN KABUL By Telegtaph—Press Assn.—Copyright. •Delhi, Sept. 16. An authentic report from Kabul states that a Mohammedan priest belonging to the Apostolic sect was publicly stoned to death in the heart of the city by an order of the High Court, confirmed 'by the Amir, for declaring that the founder of the sect was the Second Meniah. The accused refused to recant, even when buried to his waist in a public square. The populace delightedly stoning him, he was soon buried under a pile of stones. The execution has aroused indignation among hia co-eec-tarians in India.
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Taranaki Daily News, 19 September 1924, Page 7
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