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Sir Kenneth James Beatty. Human Leopards
Human Leopards
Table of Contents
PART I
CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY
CHAPTER II. THE PORO, TONGO PLAY, BORFIMA, WITCH-DOCTORS, OATHS
The Poro
Tongo Players
Borfima
Witch-doctors
Oaths
CHAPTER III. THE KALE CASE
CHAPTER IV. THE IMPERRI CASE
CHAPTER V. THE KABATI CASE
CHAPTER VI. THE YANDEHUN CASE
CHAPTER VII. BORFIMA AND MEMBERSHIP CASES
CHAPTER VIII. OTHER CASES OF LEOPARD MURDER; THE HUMAN BABOON SOCIETY
PART II
CHAPTER IX. A NOTE ON SIERRA LEONE, PAST AND PRESENT
APPENDIX. DESPATCH FROM THE GOVERNOR OF SIERRA LEONE REPORTING ON THE MEASURES ADOPTED TO DEAL WITH UNLAWFUL SOCIETIES IN THE PROTECTORATE
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Sir Kenneth James Beatty
An Account of the Trials of Human Leopards before the Special Commission Court; With a Note on Sierra Leone, Past and Present
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In introducing the Special Commission Court Ordinance into the Legislative Council the Attorney-General said:
“This Bill gives the Governor power to constitute special courts for the trial of all offences under the Human Leopard and Alligator Societies Ordinance, 1909, and also the Ordinance (the Human Leopard and Alligator Amendment Ordinance, 1912) which has just been read a second time. I may say that the usual way of trying offenders in the Protectorate is by the Circuit Court with three or four Native Paramount Chiefs, but as a great number of these chiefs are implicated and have been arrested in the Protectorate, it is obvious that the services of many, if any at all, will not be available. Moreover, there are 64 persons under trial. It will take up too much of the time of the Circuit Judge if all were sent for trial before the Circuit Court. The Governor has the power to appoint Commissioners, usually men who are Senior District Commissioners. However, it is not desirable to appoint Commissioners in the ordinary way to try offences like these. Instead of the prisoners being tried by the Circuit Judge in the ordinary way, they will be charged before a special court of three Judges.
