1788-12-18 (static/transcriptions/1788/12/499.jpg)

Beg.
I know the prisr, he is a Duffadar in the same Corps, & I knew the deced girl Saumah, she was a slave of the prisoner. She used often to run away, she was taken up and tied with ropes and hanged. She was hanged by the Bambu Hands to the Bamboo of the Chopper. This was not at the time of her Death but Ten or Five or Eight days before. Her Temples were then mark’d by burning. On Sunday the Eighth day of Shewal Meer
/ Golaum