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HUMAN LEOPARDS


[Illustration: SACKVILLE STREET, FREETOWN.]


HUMAN LEOPARDS

An Account of the Trials of Human Leopards Before the Special
Commission Court; With a Note on Sierra Leone, Past and Present

by

K. J. BEATTY

Of the Middle Temple, Barrister-at-Law for Some Years Resident in
Sierra Leone

With a Preface by Sir William Brandford Griffith

33 Illustrations






London
Hugh Rees, Ltd.
5 Regent Street, Pall Mall, S.W.
1915

Printed by
Hazell, Watson and Viney, Ld.,
London and Aylesbury.




                                PREFACE


Captain Beatty, just before leaving for the Dardanelles, asked me to
write a preface. I think that the best preface will be to answer, as far
as I am able, several questions which were frequently put to me on my
return to civilization after the conclusion of the Special Commission
Court. These questions were, “What was the object of the Human Leopard
Society? Were its members cannibals for the purpose of satisfying an
appetite for human flesh, or was it some religious r