One Of The Chief Murderers Was A Man Named Jowe, Who Had Formerly
Been A Sunday-School Teacher In Sierra Leone.
He pleaded in
extenuation of his offence that he had been compelled to join the
society.
The others said they committed the murders in order to
obtain certain parts of the body for ju-ju purposes, the leg, the
hand, the heart, etc. The Mercury goes on to give the statement of
the Reverend Father Bomy of the Roman Catholic Mission. "He said he
was at Bromtu, where the St. Joseph Mission has a station, when a
man was brought down from the Imperi country in a boat. The poor
fellow was in a dreadful state, and was brought to the station for
medical treatment. He said he was working on his farm, when he was
suddenly pounced upon from behind. A number of sharp instruments
were driven into the back of his neck. He presented a fearful
sight, having wounds all over his body supposed to have been
inflicted by the claws of the leopard, but in reality they were
stabs from sharp-pointed knives. The native, who was a powerfully-
built man, called out, and his cries attracting the attention of his
relations, the leopards made off. The poor fellow died at Bromtu
from the injuries. It was only his splendid physique that kept him
alive until his arrival at the Mission." The Mercury goes on to
quote from the Pall Mall, and I too go on quoting to show that these
things are known and acknowledged to have taken place in a colony
like Sierra Leone, which has had unequalled opportunities of
becoming christianised for more than one hundred years, and now has
more than one hundred and thirty places of Christian worship in it.
"Some twenty years ago there was a war between this tribe Taima and
the Paramas.
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