INDIAN WOMAN’S SUICIDE
A SEQUEL. Press Association—Telegraph—Copyright. Received August 20, 11.5 a.m. DELHI. August 19. Four Indians wore sentenced to terras ranging from eighteen months to two years, for abetting a widow to become suttee, before fifteen hundred ' spectators. The prisoners were terrified ’ into helping the woman to commit suicide on her husband’s funeral pyre, because she threatened to invoke curses on them.
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Wanganui Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14065, 20 August 1913, Page 7
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INDIAN WOMAN’S SUICIDE
Wanganui Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14065, 20 August 1913, Page 7
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