Show 7 kolief of 0 AM C don 0 00 D south south african youth burghed to death to appease wrath of great spirit cincinnati sir clarkson Tred gold the senior judge of southern Ith odesta and lid a jury were engaged for two days investigating tile in which AlLind uza tile second survive surviving rig konof of chief of a section of bf the ho Al tribu was offered up as aa 0 sacrifice to 0 o appease the wrath of the tile great spirit those charged with tile the crime of murder included Clil gango the fattier father of the vict victim lill the paramount chief of the district only proved share of tile proceedings was alis tile pro vision of un all escort to carry out the orders of elli gango ChIrl serl a n headman of a neighboring kraal tind and four police boys or priests who acting 1 on 0 orders carried out tile cere ceremony atho tile paramount chief was found not guilty and discharged tile others were found guilty and sentenced to deith death in passing son sentence tence the judge announced that lie ho would support file ho bistrong recommendation to mercy with blitch the jury has haa coti 1 kneir V verdict r says PIL kard in tho the cin En enquiry quirl I 1 crops barnd by sun in january last jobi tile the Alta warn tribe in common with others 0 lagow their crops being AL destroyed St royed by u scorching sun rind ond starvation staring them in the foce face suspicion fell on ho he had angered tile the great spirit and ant ilia his father ordered that lie to should fio bo put to death with all alf tile customary ceremony it came out in evidence that Clil ChI gango could not trust b isa own to execute this decree and obtained on an escort of about seventy from cills att so that eliat the victim should not ollow allow ills his courage to fall and seek beck safety in night mancuzo was coave conveyed III 1 tho the night to sitting place P instructions camo came irom from Chi gango that ills son soil should ile bo sacrificed an eyewitness of the scene described how Mandu hands wore were bound with a limbo pe cirlia kept hept for such occasions lons and wall waa then thell carried by tile the police boys to a where a 0 wood fire had been prepared tile the man was laid on the pyro pyre and further timber placed over him it did not transpire that that lie he offered any rep resistance il stance D dy daybreak nothing remained but a pilo pile of ashes and human bones from which tile the flash had been burned chiefs son notifies police in the lie meantime Clil gangos second son eon who hearil heard what had happened to ills his brother and evidently feared that ho he might bo be marled out for the fhe samo game fate went to tile the police post at mount blount darwin and reported tile the occurrence A pollee police trooper and four native po aco boys boya tile the scene made certain inquiries and marched 0 natives who seemed to have been concerned lo in the case to bount darwin where the investigations were continued nod and the preliminary examination held in a statement made on that occasion by one of those afterward placed on n trial the following passage occurred 1 I admit we were caught and are now to die for the lie fault of our chief and headman ChI gango came to and told him ho wanted him to take and burn his son mandoza Mand uza refused to do so saying that wo we were under the white po peoples oples rule now Clil gango said 41 burnt and Many and the white people have not heard and they will not hear of this tile tho statement as to two previous sacrifices having taken place in recent years at the same saine site Is bo be llevad to bo be true the rhodesian police and law departments part ments have had to deal with a considerable number of charges ot of murder arising out of witchcraft witcher A ft and the machination of witch doctors ar or tile tho outcome ot of deep rooted tribal superstition but this la Is tile the first instance in shiell they have been able to obtain evidence of human sacrifice in accordance with old established rites |