BLACK ISRAELITES

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XIX, Issue 6390, 5 December 1921, Page 2

BLACK ISRAELITES

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PROPHET ENOCH SENTENCED. RELIGION CLOAKS SEDITION, .. United Sc". vice Telegrams./ (Received 12.30 p.m.) CAPETOWN, December 3. The hearing has been completed at Queenstown, after lasting eight days,of the ease in which Enoch, the prophet, of a fanatical religious sect known .as the Israelites was charge] with sedition along 'with 130 of his followers, whose resistance t’o the authorities led to a *- serious affray and heavy loss of life at Bulhoek in December last. AU wore found guilty. an] E'noc-n and two other i ingleadei's were each .sentenced to six year.--’ imprisonment, thirty cilice hearers were given three years, and the rank ami file eighteen months each, while the oKI men and b'oys who took part received two years, sentence being suspended in the latter cases. The Judge commented severely on ’he withdrawal of the police when the trouble threatened, saying it was unparalleled in the history of our intercourse with the natives for a well armed body to retire before a badly ann«'| crowd of natives. Such action had an ext rein oily bad effect, but lie" exonerated the police in view of their action whon it was finally decided to compel the Israelites to obey authority. The declared that Enoch had tisoc! religion n as a cloak for a scditibus movement against the white®.