Answer: “He is not sure.”
Two fellow-villagers—young men, named C C C and D D D—step out and state that they remember. The act occurred when the clay was being dug over at C D, when the slip-place for the steamers was begun.
E E E, of E*, another section of the village of R**, questioned by Consul: “Did you see this lad’s hand cut off?”
Answer: “Yes. I did not actually see it being cut off. I came up and saw the severed hand and the blood lying on the ground. The people had run away in all directions.”
Consul asked interpreters to ask if there were others who had seen the crime and charged K K with it.
Nearly all those present, about forty persons, nearly all men, shouted out with one voice that it was K K who did it.
Consul: “They are all sure it was K K here?”
Universal response: “Yes; he did it.”
Consul asked the accused K K: “Did you cut off this boy’s hand?”
This question was put in the plainest language, and repeated six times, with the request that a plain answer—“yes” or “no”—should be given.