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lid of a desk, & seemed to be going to put the watch in it. I saw the watch in his hand at the time. But seeing me & hearing me call out “What are you doing there”, he turned aside and threw the watch into a drain which runs along the outside of the Veranda. I took it out and stopped the Prisoner.
When I first stopped Prisoner? & wanted to search him Peer Mahommed Khansumaun was sitting there, he was there when I discovered the watch hanging to his Cummerbund, & saw what passed when I took the watch