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above witness has committed a

perjury.

The statement that the eleven prisoners went to their house and attacked it is

a mere

especially a

Aver

glaring falsehood . From the informations which I received, no attack has ever been made on their fronêse;

at the time, when the prisoners confined to their house for mourning the loss of one of their relatives. ● According to the informations received, and which I communicated to Your Excellency in my previous potition the idea of the prisoners attacking the house of Dai-he - part is simply ridiculous__ is an_

absurd - Jai-ho-pau

was the fread.

of 4000 men while the whole party of the prisoners did not exceed 100 mien.-

Jai-ho- par

the

was the

terror of all

the district; and the same

Prefect was

afraid of him : who could imagine

for a

a

moment that these few weak-

people should

go to attack him in his strong hold? On the contrary the witnesses' party have always been the _

e

aggressive one. i-ho- pass caused the

death of live of the prisoners party by torturing

them in his own house, he tried to burn the prisoners' house with Kerosine and to attack with 40 men all well armsed the ancestral hall where the prisoner partyz was collected so that these latter have to shut and bar the doors of the lave to save themselves, their wives and children. In

a word the witresses are in

perjurers. 2nd

impudent.

The witnesses commit a second

the

pojury