Show i f i Y pt 7 f. f 4 AL II 1 r L LE l lai iL l KI 11 I l A TRIBE MEMBERS V SACRIFICE BOY Six Sentenced to Death Deat h for Act SALISBURY Southern Rhodesia a Juno no 6 Human Human sacrifice still seal is is practiced in fn some parts of ot the of old oid d world it w was was s shown recently when n six members of ot a local tribe were sentenced to death for burning alive e lI a young a-young y ou ung g man named l 1 in n order to appease the ral rain goddess Rhodesia had been suffering from froma a severo severe drought and some somo some of ot the native tribes ascribed it to the wrath of ot the goddess who they be be- be loved had been v violated Inquiries led ed the tribal I chief to believe that his son was way guilty of or having assaulted assaulted as- as the goddess the goddess and he thereupon thereupon therl- therl there there- upon ordered his The rain goddess a young and handsome girl did not testify against him uDe Defense nse counsel commented commented on the the- high motives which led the the chief to sacrifice his son for tor rain and referred and referred to parallel cases in Hebric hI history tory fell soon after atter l was waa j burned burned- alive aUve |