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Bazar towards the cantonments, where I saw the prisnr standing about 20 or 30 yards from the deced (on the esplanade.) The native whom I before called the deced was walking along, and the prisr made up to him, drew his bayonet & stabbed him. The deced put up his right hand to his breat, staggered about 5 yrds & fell. The Prisr retd the bayonet into the scabbard & made off towards the Cantonments. A boy, who called himself the son of the decd, & whom I now
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