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prisoner or given him any provocation, but was passing quietly along.

He stabbed him for nothing.
My father’s name was Shaik Gowsi. When he was stabbed the Cutwal’s people and I carried the corpse to Col: Brown. He fell when he recd the wound and died instantly.
Before I went to Col: Brown’s, I follow’d the white man, & I saw him go into the Cookroom. Other people called out to me to seize the prisr but did not themselves attempt to take him. After he had stabbed my father