AN AFRICAN “BLUEBEARD.”

Western Star, 13 June 1933, Page 4

AN AFRICAN “BLUEBEARD.”

FIVE WIVES KILLED. , amazing story of an African Bluebeard” i s reported fffom Kampala, m Uganda, where the police discovered th© charred bodie s of several women and a number of children in tlie rums of a native cotton store. Ihe owner, a Moslem had previously killed a native woman with Whom he had had a love affair His neighbours stated that he afterward butv 6 ti d h ! S ? Ve Wives cu t «P and bury the. bedy, swearing them to secrecy.

wife gossiped, with the result that the police inquired fo r th© misskifled °TL l - The lr urdere r thereupon killed all his wives and eight eluldren attacking them separately with a snear in a mad frenzy. ‘ spear b ° dies h f into the cotton ore and set- th e building on fir© He then rushed several miles down ' the suicide hy ferngtag

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TORRENT OF WASTED WORDS llie excited individual entered the crowded room while the meeting was m progress, took a bundle of notes tioni Ins. pocket, and began to speak. the chairman, made repeated efforts to interrupt the speaker, but he refused to be called to orden The oration lasted nearly half an hour, and u hen the man had resumed hi s seat the chairman managed to gain a Learing.

‘Have you qu it e finished?’ tie chairman asked

‘Yes—quite- but I defy you to e ny the truth of my statement,’ the man retorted. '

I have no wish to do so/ said the chairman. ‘The ga s company, of n vhich - vou com i,‘ ’ s holding its annual meeting on the next floor. This is a meeting .of the \ egetarian Society.’ UNDERTAKER’S ENTERPRISE erd b! €r^“ an "' a f coll ducti.ng a funeral in Arizona when two shots were The n uiH e f[ eet OUtskle the chucihh,J ’t/ e y aker at once rushed out smde 'I 61 f a fe "' ufinutes with i T llls , fac o. ‘l’ve secured both parson Unerals ’’ lle "’luspeiod to the

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