the mark of a rope paced the necks of all three, and there were other appearances which led
hanged. They
were
wall.
to believe that they had been
quite dead. The ropes
-suspended from the crow bars in the
.
(Signed) F. Dill.
James Fennell, a Policeman, said
I was on duty at the gaol yesterday. I went round to visit the cells which is generally done every half hour. I looked into the cell where the three Chinese were and saw
two of them hanging by the neck. I immediately ran and told Sergeant Collins of it. He came, and looked at them, and then went to Mr. Hillier
I found the third lying
the
ground covered with his clothes. When W. Hillier and Mr. ...
came
were
had
they.
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were ordered to be cut down they
- quite dead where I found them they
unravelled
a part of their bed which was of gunny bags and made ropes of it.
There was
a tub in the cell which I found turned
upwards, which was a little aside of one of them, as if it had been
The deceased had asked me
yesterday when they were going to be hung - I told them they
were not
to be hung just directly - No person went near them yesterday except to give them their rations. I did not notice that they had been unravelling the gunny bags but I found three or four of the boards on the floor of the cell taken up and the contents of the bucket emptied there. There were strict orders given
that no one
should visit them. There was some
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