A TERRIBLE DEATH.
BUHAMARA’S FATE. •t'NTTiu* I'liKos Association —CortitimiT LONDON, Oct. 10. The “Daily Mail’s” Fez correspondent states that the captured pretender Buhamara! was not shot, but his feet were chained and he was thrown into a garden, where there were three starved lions. He tried to climb a tree, but a lioness tore off his left arm. Soldiers then stabbed him in the breast a dozen times.. The lions, returning, toyed with the body as cats with a mouse. The Sultan, and the members of the court watched the scene from windows.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2630, 12 October 1909, Page 5
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93A TERRIBLE DEATH. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2630, 12 October 1909, Page 5
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