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it was a drawn bayonet till after he had given the first stab. On receiving the first stab, the woman cried out that he was about to stab her with a bayonet. (Khoda humco Singin Marriga.) I was sitting on a cot little further from them than the length of this table; and on hearing the woman cry out I got up, and went a step or two nearer to them but then stopt.
The woman got up and ran close past me to the door. He immediately followed her and as he then passed very near me, I could then see very plainly that what he had in his hand was a drawn Bayonet. He then shoved her against the doorcase with his left hand and made a stab at her with the drawn Bayonet in his right hand. That I saw very plainly. It was not very light – the only lamp that was burning near the place was one in that girl’s birth. She ran out at the door, and the Prisr followed her. I ran after them. The woman and the prisoner both fell over a bricked drain near the Barrack. They did not fall into it but across it; he got up again and made two or three more stabs at her. Several people came about the prisoner, but he held out the bayonet in his hand and said if any man molested him [he]
would