Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-07-06
NOW TORTUR[S HIS WIFE.
More About the Black Princes
Cannibal Instincts,
WHITE WIFE LEAVES HIM
Che Captured and Petted Him But His
Cruel Nature Was Not subdued---
aescued From the Hands Of a Brutal
Savage.

The untamed demon within Loben-
gula, the black Prince from Africa,
has been aroused. 1t has thrust out
Its claws and barred its yellow fangs.
And thereby has 1t proven the Prince
to be worse than the brute that hui
manity at its lowest always is. Dis
patches have told how this man. who
for months has been the centre of
attraction for amusement-loving Lon
don society and the pet Of fair ladies,
has Mortified his patrons and admir-
ers by an exemplifleation of barbaric
manners not provided for in the con-
tract between himself and the man
ayers Of the great British exhibition
in which he has been the star per.
former.
The beautiful wife who deserted
her family and friends and defied all
fashionable world in which she held
social sway, In order to marry the
dusky chieftain whose fascinations
proved to her stronger than all other
ties. has fallen a victim to her hus-
bands hereditary but long.repressed
thirst for human blood.
He proceeded to beat his pretty
white wife with energy and frequency,
and even more energetically and fire.
qnently as he realized that she was
estranged from all her friends, and
was too proud and too ashamed to
complain Of him to strangers and
seek their protection.
What Kate Jewell has suffered be.
cause Of her own unjustifiable and
inexcusable folly no mortal save her.
self will ever know. She has schooled
herself to silence and endured what
came to her with the stoicism of an
Indian at the stake. Having taken
her life In her own hands and ruined
1t, she has been brave enough to suf.
fer the consequences and make no
sign.
But at last the end has come. Lo-
bengula, the handsome and fascinat.
ing Prince, the passionate lover, the
devoted husband. has become meta
morphosed into Lobengula the savage
and the cannibal, whose horrid crav.
ing for human blood has manifested
itself In murderOus attack upon his
loving and defenceless wife, the scars
of which she will carry to her grave.
Shut away from the rest of the
world with the man whom she had
chosen from all others to be her hus-
band. Kate Jewell found herself face
to face with death IN its most cruel
and brutal form. As the tiger springs
from the jungle upon Its unsuspect-
Ing prey, 80 sprang upon her this hui
man tiger. whom she had captured
and petted, but not subdued. His
strong hands grasped her like bands
of steel; his bloodshot eyes glared
into her very soul. For one moment
he held her powerless. gloating over
her helplessness, and then deep into
the white flesh of her arm he sank
his teeth. biting and tearing and
snarling like the wild beast that he
Is, while the warm red blood Of his
victim dyed his savage lips and drip
ped down In the soft folds of her silk.
en- robe. The one shrek Of mortal
terror and despair which came from
the tortured woman's lips before a
black hand stified her uttetance
brought some passers-by to the res.
cue. Civilization conquered savagery
for the time being, and the black de.
mon was overpowered.
The Prince is handsome fellow
In his own peculiar way. He combines
the sinuous grace Of a creeping pan.
ther with the physical perfection of a
human creature to whom nature on
His own account has been more than
kind. But he han lost his white wife.