FAMILY OF MURDERERS.
AMAZING CRIME STORY FROM ' SOUTH AFRICA. * I JOHANNESBURG, Sept. 15. ! An amazing story of crime comes from Calvinia, Cape Colony, a village which ran claim tho unenviable distinction of ' possessing a single family five members | ot which have been charged with mur- ' der or attempted murder. ! Jacob Swart has just been found ! guilty of kicking his wife to death and sentenced to death/ A second member of tho family was found guilty of the , attempted murder of a farmer," but the i .uiry held that he Mas insane at tho ' time, of the crime. • Leah Swnrt was found guilty of mur- i derin<v ia. child which she had been nurs- '• ■jnjr. Sho .vas sentenced to death, but i in her ease, tho sentence was reduced to penal servitude for life. : Tho most sensational ca«o wr-s that of two of tho Swart brothers, who were .nrrevted for theft, whereupon th^v shot dead tho policeman who made the arrest and strangled a. farmer who accompanied him. > Tho two (le-porndoe> then took to ' flight, but wero followed by two nolicewn into the wilds of Xorth-We^t Cape Colr>nv. where tho country was so barren that both pursuers and pursued wero forced to feed on roots. Eventually the fugitives wero captured and hanged.— Central News.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 12856, 29 October 1912, Page 8
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