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I never tied him or beat him. I never heard any promise of force made to him, nor any threat.

The Prisoner says.
I have no Witness. It was eight o’Clock at night when I was beaten. Okoor Dutt my employer directed me to go to Gocul Dutt at the Cottah Baurry. Who order’d me to be tied hands and feet and to be fasten’d [to?] a Window. This
/ Witness