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hearing my life! There were 3 or 4 reports. I heard my sister-in-law's voice
brother call out !
before I heard the reports, not afterwards. Then I
went back
into the inner hall when the
robbers pushed open the door between the passage and the inner open space, came up to me and pointed firearms at me. They
They seized me and put at the folding doors between the inner hall and the outer open space,
all
passage
3 men to watch me. There
They put
7 men had firearms. They told me they would kill me if I spoke.
for
They stood guard
an hour. There was light
and candles
about
in the room and
their faces. They had lighted paper torches. I could see those who kept watch over me
distinctly.
distinctly. I should know them again if I saw them. Now I
see
the prisoner. He was
one
of the men
who kept watch over
me and who pointed firearms
at
me.
He had a black woolen jacket
on that night, and a
pair of black cloth trousers upside down. After keeping guard over me the robbers inside were carrying things and through the passage through the open space and by the front door. When all these men had left those who were helping guard over me also
left.
Then there was a great noise in the neighbourhood-
I then went into my brother's part of the house I found my brother lying in the inner open space dead. I saw a
gunshot wound in the middle
of the belly. He was quite dead.