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Q-He did not faint?
A-No.
Q-Had he to be carried away to the hospital?
A-No.
Q-He was taken there on the 6th and on the 9th he had an abscess.
he discharged?
A-On the 12th.
Q-Did you visit him in the hospital after the second flogging?
A-Several times in the day.
When was
Q-How do the results of his case compare with the results of other cases?
A-We cannot foresee when a man will get an abscess.
Q--I am not asking you that. After the flogging was over how did the results of the flogging compare with the ordinary results of flogging?
A-You cannot say whether a man will get an abscess.
Q-No, but in this case an abscess did occur?
A-It did occur.
Q-It is not common?
A-No.
Q-Can you give me any reason why that abscess occurred?
A--It is difficult to say, but I believe it was due to stagnation and obstruction of blood in the vessels. When a man's wounds bleed freely there is the least probability of an abscess being formed.
Q-Was the bleeding profuse in this case?
A-No.
Q-He was discharged on the 12th ?
A-Yes.
Q-Did you dress his wounds before he went out of the Gaol ?
A-The wounds were dressed by the hospital attendant.
Q-You did not dress them yourself?
A-I knew he was dressed in the morning because he was discharged before I got to the Gaol.
Q-As a fact you do not know of your own personal knowledge that it was dressed? A-Not that morning, but the day before, yes.
Q-Had you seen it the day before?
A-Yes.
Q-Is it ordinary to send prisoners out of the Gaol after a thrashing without their wounds being dressed?
A-No, we always dress them.
Q-Now we come to the second case of the man who died on the 2nd June. When was he admitted to the Gaol ?
A--On the 11th May.