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good Man.
5th Witness Bhowanny.
I am a Cooly –
I did not know the child that was killed. I was present at the finding of the Body. –
I was seized by peons 11 o’clock as I was eating my dinner.
I heard in the street that a child was missing, but how long that after I was seized I don’t remember.
The peons came & said Banchut you’re wanted. When I offered to speak, to the peon, he struck me [ILL] Banchut don’t talk. I did not know whither they would carry me. 3 other Coolies were seized [about the?] same time, Sattuck Danoo Dhur Dass, & Connoy. I