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Mr. Norton: Then you said about the car as follows: "Then these two accused said: There is the Crystal Palace; smash it.'

Witness: They both said that. They only spoke once, in unison

Mr. Norton: You told us to-day what they said was: This is the Moorman's Crystal Palace; break it."

Witness: They both said this. That was the only time they spoke. I have I knew he known the accused long before the 1st of June and knew who he was.

was Don Carolis's son, but I did not know his name. I did say on the 6th of June: "The other man I have on several occasions seen at Don Carolis's furniture shop. He is distinguished by pimples or scars on his face." I did see these pimples or scars on the 1st from where I was standing. He has scars on both sides. I cannot say which side. I saw them. It is not from that fact that I recognized that he was Don Carolis's son. I knew him in the shop. I did not know at that time that he had a brother who is a doctor. I have been inside the shop. I live with my brother-in-law. I told him who I had seen in the car, and described the accused. My brother-in-law did not then say: "I think I know that man's name." He did net tell me that he believed that man's name to be Edmund Hewawitarne. I was present when he gave evidence the first time, but did not hear what he said as I was kept outside. I knew that the firm traded as Don Carolis & Sons, but did not know who were the persons comprising the firm. This accused is the head man in the shop. I knew that at the time. I admit that I said on the 6th: "I actually heard what N. S. Fernando's son and the man from Don Carolis's shop told the crowd." I intended by that to describe the accused. I do not know that there is a man in that shop who has pock marks and pimples all over his face. I made no complaint between the 1st and the 6th. I was not asked to do so by my brother-in-law. He told me nothing. The crowd of Sinhalese I first saw were walking up and down the street. They were part and parcel of the crowd which afterwards, at the insti- gation of the accused, wrecked the shop. They eventually walked up towards the junction and stood there. There were many people on the 1st June who, to my knowledge, were witnesses of the occurrence. I saw the accused instigating the mob; I do not know whether others saw.

Mr. Norton: Did you make this statement on the 6th to the Magistrate: “There are many witnesses who have seen these two men instigating the mob.”

Witness: I did not say that.

Mr. Norton: Then did you go on to say: "I can call one now, by name Saleh "? Did you say: "I can call one witness now

Witness: I said one witness has come.

Mr. Norton: Did you say: Witness: I did not say that.

I can call one now"!

Mr. Norton: Did you say that: "That one witness whom you could call was Saleh "?

Witness: Yes.

Mr. Norton And did you call Saleh on that day-the 6th! Witness: Yes; I called no one else.

Mr. Norton: You did not produce the remaining eye-witnesses till the 25th! Witness: I do not know; I gave evidence. Between the 6th and the 25th I did not go anywhere to try and get witnesses. I do not know whether anyone went.

Mr. Norton: Can you or can you not account for the fact that after the 6th a large number of eye-witnesses were called on the 25th whom you never mentioned on the 8th.

Witness: I do not know. Between the 6th and the 25th I did not give any names of eye-witnesses to anybody. I do not know whether my brother-in-law gave any names of eye-witnesses.

The next witness examined by the Honourable Attorney-General was:- Slema Lebbe, sworn.

I am a trader in cloth. I had a shop in Negombo, but now I hawk. I live at Alutgama. I came to Colombo on the 1st of June and alighted at the Fort Station. I arrived at about 11.0 or 11.15 a.m. and went to No. 43, Keyser Street, to Abdul Rahiman's shop. I tried to enter the shop but could not, so I stood on the verandah for about an hour. While I stood there a car came. Before the car came there was pelting of stones at passers by. The Sinhalese were doing this. serious. The motor-car came from towards First Cross Street.

There was nothing

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near the furniture shop and two persons alighted. Before that day I knew both these persons.

I have bought things from them. (The witness here identified the accused.) I have sworn by God and the Prophet to tell the truth. That man was in the car. They beckoned to the crowd. The crowd came running They pointed and said: "Break this; there is a lamp shop, a big shop." and said: "Break it."

They pointed to that I heard their voices and the words they used. The crowd came up running and began smashing the shop. The two persons then turned and said: This also belongs to a Moorman; break it." I heard these words. That was M. M. Cassim's shop. They said this while the Crystal Palace was being broken. Then they broke that also. When that was broken they got into the car and went off by Second Cross Street. The looting took about ten minutes. One party broke one shop and another party the other shop. The accused did not wait there till the whole thing was finished. While they were smashing I went away. I walked to Keyser Street from the station

The Honourable the Attorney-General: You said, I think, that it was after 12.0 when this thing happened. Have you any reason for saying that? remember what you did or how long you stayed?

Do you

Witness: Yes.

The Honourable the Attorney-General: What makes you say you waited so long as that?

Witness: I was afraid to pass Keyser Street; through fear I stayed at the Fort Station for some time. People who were passing by said that there was rioting in Main Street, so I waited for about three-quarters of an hour at the Fort Station. I came to Colombo to buy cloth. I was going to Bombay men's shops in Keyser Street.

The Honourable the Attorney-General: You say you were about three-quarters of an hour at the station, and you walked to the spot. How long were you at the verandah where you were waiting?

Witness: About half an hour. Cross-examined by Mr. Norton:

stopped at the Fort Station on arrival for

When I got to

half an hour because I was told something about rioting going on. Keyser Street at the end of that half-hour I saw people throwing stones at the passers-by-Moormen only. Some of them were hit. and leg. I made no complaint to anyone.

I was also hit on my shoulder to Keyser Street that morning. I did not buy cloth that day. I went to Silversmith The place was not wrecked when I got Street after I left Keyser Street. I went after the car had passed. About half an hour after the arrival of the car I walked, not alone, but with a number of our people-Moormen; about seven, eight, or ten, persons. They were not assaulted on their way back. At that time the Punjabis had arrived. Keyser Street, Abdul Rahim's shop.

I stopped at No. 43, It is on the same side as the Crystal Palace. Mr. Norton: What is the distance between where you stopped--No. 43-and where the car stopped? Is it sixty yards? Have you any idea of distance at all?

Witness: I know that there are four houses intervening. Mr. Norton: Will you swear it was not more?

About forty cubits. Witness: I did not measure it--how can I say?

to hear what the two gentlemen said in the car.

It was close enough for me

I have told you on the Koran what

was examined in the

I heard. I am fasting to-day. I spoke the truth when Magistrate's Court. Those were not fasting days. I was not asked to swear on the Koran that day.

Mr. Norton: This is what you said that day: "These two men got out. was a crowd of Sinhalese at the First Cross Street junction, and accused beckoned There to them to come up. They came. Accused then pointed out the Crystal Palace.

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Accused also pointed out Cassim's shop. Then they got into the car and went away."

Witness: They went away when the shops were being broken. Mr. Norton: This is what you said. Is that true? Witness

not asked.

I said then what I said to-day. I answered all the questions that were put to me. In the Magistrate's Court I confined myself to stating that the two accused beckoned, and I did not say a word about their speech, because I was I had on the watch that I am now wearing. It fell down and broke on the day of the riots. After the car went away I ran, and in jumping over some steps I fell down. I did not refer to the watch at any time, either before the car came or at the time it came. I said this morning that when the motor-car arrived two persons in the car beckoned to the crowd and said: Crystal Palace. One of them was the accused. The other man also said it.

'Break this," meaning the heard both say it.

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