| − | His socks were perfectly unsoiled, and his boots which were about half worn, [?] appeared to be greatly too large for him. The said boots looked to me as if they had been standing away for some time unused as they were hard and dry.When I first saw the body of the man it was quite warm and bleeding and it seemed to me as if it had been very recently murdered. The body was hauled out of the house just before I got there. After the prisoner was arrested I cautioned him( through an interpreter) and before I had any conversation with him that anything he might say might be taken down and used in evidence against him, that he need not make any statement unless he liked and the statement he made was that he slept with woman Sue[?] (the woman who was murdered)that night and that he left the house at 5 o'clock that morning and went home to his own house and went to bed and that there were in the house when he left to go home Sue [?] and Fong Pap. The name of the interpreter above referred to is [?] [?].
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