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the woman's house and tested her statement

Cha

to

having left her sickle there by

making next day a diligent search for

it in the house. We had found her

house looked

He is ready up.

if there had been.

to

swear that

a sickle there he should

have discovered it. This witness was

examined at the trial but was asked no question respecting his having thus

tested the woman's statement that she

had left the sickle in her house: nor as to the fact that the

than one wound.

snart-

had more

on his head.

Had Dr Ayres been examined

8.

at the trial his

his testimony

would have

shown that the allegation the prisoner

had made all along that he had been

struck

on

the head with a stone was in

fact correct : and from the nature of the wound

it would seem not unreasonable that the

blow had been violent enough to have. rendered the prisoner partly insensible. The latter allegation of the prisoner would seem to be further confirmed by the evidence of Mr Almeida the Light House Keeper who

swore before the lovoner that

to the scene

of the

prisoner sitting

on

coming

Geeurrenel

he

saw

the

on the ground being held

by the woman who

by his subsequently

queu

died

from her wounds.

9.

"Though a point of minor

ce it was ascertained immediately

importance

after the trial that the witness Chum Amui

had

given a false

manne

and

falsely

;