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Cross-examined.—I went to Malacca and bought 10 gantangs of rice. I am 14 miles fom Malacca. The Chinese would not sell rice then. I have served in the police a little less than three years. I never tried to steal anything from No. 1. I swear that I never had a row with him about fish. I never had a row with him about anything. I do not owe him money. I had no quarrel with his wife. I never entered any Chinese society. I was as far from where the Chinese were fighting as from here to the wall at the end of the Court. When I got there they were fighting, about 70 or - men. We, Dolemat and I, ran to the right. The man who was chased ran towards the paddy field on the left was very frightened. They were fighting on the Malacca

de of the ninth milestone.

SALLAY :--Son of Punghulu. I am residing at Pyah Rumput. I received orders to go to Pokoh Sepetay about 7 p.m. I saw many Chinese with sticks, parangs, guns, and flags. On Friday, next day, I was with a gentleman at past Pokoh Sepetay, and saw a dead body in the jungle. Before that I had seen it being carried close to the 5th milestone at the side of a paddy-field. There was no head. No. 1 was there, nd Nos. 2 and 3. No. I had a knife, No. 2 a stick, No. 3 a gun at the 4th milestone.

Cross examined. I was told there had been a tight and a person was lying dead near the Pvah Road. As I was coming out I saw the Chinese carrying the corpse. That was on Thursday. About six days after, I saw the dead body with Mr. Westerhout in the jungle. I swear it was the same body. My father is in charge of that district.

Pisonene Kanim-I went to Sepetay. When I got to the 6th milestone I was stopped, and I returned home. Chinese stopped me, They bad parangs and sticks. When I got to the 9th milestone, I heard of a disturbance, and went home."

When I got home, the 9th milestone, I saw the head of a Chinaman there. Forty or 50 Chinese were there. The three prisoners were there. No. I had a short knife in his hand, No. 2 a short carbine, something like this, No. 3 a long stick. I said, "If you have a quarrel, what is the use of cutting each other?” No. I said, "If you do like this, the headman will give $50.” I have known No. 1, ten or 15 years. He lives below the 8th milestone, No. 2 for six, seven, or eight years; he has a shop. No. 3 for four or five years. The head I saw was as far as from here to the outer wall on the fence. No. 1 was the same distance off. I had to pass the head to speak to him.

I got

Cross-examined.—It was on a Thursday. I live above the 9th milestone. no report about No. 2's house. His house was burned two or three day's after he was arrested.

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Sallay Bin Soonort:—I am a cart driver. I remember disturbances about five months

I was driving a bullock-cart in front of ago.

house. my

I saw a Chinese head hanging in front of a Chinese shop near Sepetay; it was hung by the pagar by the towchang. There were many Chinese there, 50 or 60; some had sticks, some knives, some swords. Nos. 1, 2, and 3 were there (gives the names of each). No. 1 had a knife, No. 2 had a gun, No. 3 a long knife. I said to No. 1 What do you do like this ?" He said "It does not interest the Malays, what do you care?" I went home. No. I was as far from him as from where he is to the end of the court, I had known No. 1 about four years, No. 2 about five years, No. 3 about three years. They were all three in the middle of the road. No. 2 had this gua (produced). They all three spoke, and said the same thing.

No. 1's is not

Cross-examined.-- This was near No. 3's shop, and No. 2's is near it. very far off. The men standing there belonged to the village. There were two red flags in front of the shop, No. 3's.

SOOLONG-I have a cocoa-nut plantation at Pyah Rumput. There was fighting going on there about four or five months ago.

I heard firing of guns.

It came from the public road about noon. After the firing had ceased, I stopped work and went off to sce. I saw Nos. 1, 2, and 3; the rest I did not know, 60 or 70; they were armed with guns, parangs, and krisses. No. 3 had a crooked parang with a stick handle. No. 1 was holding a Chinaman's head by his towchang, as well as a sword. I spoke to Nos. 1 and 2, and said Why should you cut his head off?" He said, "In Malacca, the Tuah Koh of Malacca will give $50 for each head." No. 2 said nothing. The head seemed to have been lately cut off, the blood was dropping. I afterwards saw a dead body in a plantation in the bottom of a paddy-field below the 9th milestone, more or less

I know Salleh. I went with him to these men. 30 fathoms from it.

I saw them at Pokoh Sepetay about 4 p.m. They were still armed. These three men were in the five-feet pathway. Sallch spoke to them. He said, "The dead man you must carry."

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No. 1 said, Very good." These three men went along with sune 20 others to do it. They took up the body. Nos. I and 2 ordered the Chinese. I have known No. 1 14 or 15 years, No. 2 10 or 12, and No. 2 three or four years.

Cross-examined.—I live more or less half a mile from No. 1. I don't know of Malays joining Chinese Societies.

I knew Koh Siew. He was

KOH POн-I have a shop about 18 miles from town. employed in Chin Hoon's plantation at Kalamat. On the 4th of December, I think, was the last day I saw him in Chin Hoon's Bangsal. He is a relative of mine. I went to Rumbia and then to Malacca. I went with the gentleman to see the body at Pyah Rumput. The head was gone. The body was all right. It was Koh Siew's body. I know by his foot. Formerly he had a sore foot, and there was a scar still left. He had on a chintz baju that I knew him to have worn. I saw the head. I saw the doctor cut from his trowsers a memorandum book. He opened it and I saw. I knew it belonged to Koh Siew. I had seen it many times before.

Cross-examined.-I was four miles apart from him. Whenever I passed to go to Malacca I passed him. I pointed out the scar at the time to a gentleman, the doctor. I recognized the bead. The skin was gone, and the mouth was quite black. I saw it

on the 20th of December.

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M. E. SIMONS, Colonial Surgeon at Malacca :-On the 22nd of December I went to Pyah Rumput, and examined the body of a Chinese, said to be that of Koh Siew, lying on its stomach in the jungle, without a head. The skull was found a few yards from the body. put the skull to the body, and found them exactly to correspond. I saw several deep cuts on the skull, and one on the lower jaw. There was something in the baju, roco leaves and a pocket-book, which I cut out, and handed over to the police. Messrs. Hayward, Plunket, Trevenen, Westerhout were there, and last witness. remember some question about an ulcer on the leg. There was a place which might have been an ulcer, but it was so decomposed I could not say. Possibly a person having known it in his lifetime might recognize it. I cannot say I saw the Chinaman pointing it out, but he was by, and there was a discussion.

Cross-examined.-I saw a place eaten away, a hole; insects were eating it at the time. Nothing could be recognized by the head. The body was very much decomposed.

J. E. WESTERHOUT-I am sheriff of Malacca. There were disturbances at Sepetay, at Pyah Rumput. I was ordered to go up there. December 17, with some troops. On arriving there at 12 p.m., everything was quiet. Next morning I got No. 1 arrested. On 21st I went up again, and searched for the body; and on going into the jungle, I saw the headless body of a Chinaman between the 8th and 9th milestones, about 150 fathoms from the public road. I went farther up to make further inquiries, and reported to the coroner. I surrounded the house of No. 1. It was searched; nothing I charged him. He said during the disturbance he was fighting and ran into the jungle with his wife and children; he was innocent, No. 2 I have known for the last 12 years. He keeps a shop and eating-house.

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Cross-examined.-No. 2's house was burnt on the 20th. I saw it still burning on

the 21st.

SERJEANT-MAJOR ENDIN :-I am a sergeant of police at Malacca. On the 17th of December I went to Sepetay. I saw No. 2 with a gun still in his hand, six and a half miles off on the public road, at 6 a.m. He entered a plantation on seeing me.

He ran and therefore I chased him. He had still that musket. I told him I arrested him for making a disturbance. He said nothing. On the 18th of the month I arrested On the 21st I went to Sepetay with Mr. Westerhout to search. We found the body in the jungle close to the village of Sepetay. It was very much decomposed, and without a head.

No. 1.

I arrested him I said, "Who is

AH LANG, P.C. 69 :—I know No. 3. He was before the magistrate. at Pokoh Sepetay on the 1st of January on the public road at 9 p.m. that ?" He ran away.

I ran after him. He fell down, and I arrested him, Cross-examined. I had a warrant (produced). INSPECTOR CARTWRIGHT:-During the disturbance I went on the 16th of December at 6 p.m. to Rumbia, on my way to Sepetay. I heard there that a large body of Chinese had taken possession of the place, and had murdered somebody. I went to Chin Hoon's plantation. When I reached Pyah Rumput at 6 a.m. on the 17th, No. 2 was standing on the road. He had this musket. I ordered him to be arrested.

Cross-examined.- I simply arrested him because he had the gun in his hand.

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