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Q--He had not been put on penal diet?
A-He had received three days' penal diet on the 16th. Q-Do you remember what that was for?
A--Refusing to labour.
Q--At what?
A--Carrying shot and stone.
Q--What led up to his being thrashed on the 6th May?
A--On the 27th the light labour was further extended for one week. That was altogether fifteen days. He was discharged from light labour on the 4th May and he immediately refused to do hard labour.
Q-He was ordered to do hard labour. Did he do it at all?
A--No, he refused.
He objected to carry stone?
A-Yes, and he was brought under report on the 5th and sentenced to twenty-four strokes?
Q-That was ordered by whose authority?
A-By a Visiting Justice.
Q-Do you remember who the Visiting Justice was?
A-Mr. D. E. BROWN.
Q-Only one Visiting Justice?
A-Yes.
Q-Do you remember being present at the enquiry?
A-I was present at the enquiry.
Q-Between the flogging of the 21st April and the flogging of the 6th May, was
this man subjected to any penal diet?
A-Yes, he received two days rice and water for not doing his labour.
Q-Can you give me the dates?
A-On the 28th April.
Q-On the 28th April he was put to rice and water for two days?
A-Yes.
Q-Did he pick oakum after that?
A-He continued picking oakum.
Q-After the 30th ?
A-Yes.
Q-Did you observe this man after the second thrashing?
A-I did.
Q—Did you observe what effect the thrashing had upon his body?
A-It cut his body in the usual way.
Q-Was the effect of the thrashing out of the way?
A-Not that I noticed.
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