Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-08-31 | Page 4 | Leopard Men of Congo Sought

Leopard Men NIen of Congo Sought An energetic effort is being made in the Belgian Congo Conco district of at Africa to exterminate the or Leopard men These are natives who have a ferocious hatred for lor the white man Members of the tribe are selected by mystic rites to go goforth goforth goforth forth and kill a white man Attached to his wrists and passing on the inside in side of the hands are sharp iron claws like those of a leopard the head is entirely covered with a mask fashioned from the bark of a tree and stained to imitate the skin of a 3 leopard The leopard man carries an iron bar one end of which is formed to resemble a leopards leopard's paw Silently he tie enters the hut of the sleeping victim vie vic tim digs the terrible claws into his throat and severs the carotid artery His deed accomplished the tho with his iron bar spreads the imprints imprints im mi- prints of leapard's paws about the soil and departs as silently as he came