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the washhard stand, and asked her where the amah was. She said,
Out.
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I then sat on the bed, kissed her, drew her towards me, undone
my coat. She did not see me undo the front of my trousers, but
she noticed they were undone Her husband sprang out of the ward
robe and hit me with a stick, and she ran away into the kitchen
and had a fit of hysterice. She did not know what happened after-
wards. When reminded of the sweets, she said she asked me if I
had brought her any sweets, and I said, I have not been to town.
I was then allowed to cross-examine her:
I asked her if she had ever seen me before Tuesday the
22nd April, and she said, No. I asked her if she was on the ver-
andah when I came along the road on my bicycle.
She said, Yes.
I said, Didn't you becken me up? She said, No. I said, Didn't
that
I tell you, when I visited your house on the first occasion,
the partition and bed in the kitchen would have to be removed,
and give you three days to do it in? Sho said, No. I asked if
she had her food cooked in a restaurant sometimes, and only used
the kitchen for cooking purposes sometimes. She said once cr
twice a month only she had her food sent up from a restaurant.
I pointed out to the Chairman that she told me she had her food
sometimes sent up fron a restaurant cooked when I was talking to
her in her own kitchen about the bed being in the kitchen, but that|
she first told me she had all her food cooked in a restaurant and
then said she cooked sometimes in the kitchen. Then I told her
the bed must be removed. My point was to prove that I had told
I said, her to remove the bed from the kitchen,
Isn't your hus-
band a very bad tempered man, and you are frightened of him?
said, Yes. (Mr. Hewett said He is not always bad tempered, but
was very angry when you told him what the inspector had done to
you? She replied, Yes.) I asked her if she knew her husband had
kept a woman for six years.
She said, Yes. I told her I was
She
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