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died on the following mornino;, of injuries said to 

 have been inflicted by De Lange. When De 

 Lange was l^ronglit before the magistrate he was 

 committed for trial on the charge of culpable 

 homicide, and the magistrate refused to admit him 

 to bail. On hearing of this, the Boer farmers in 

 the neighbourhood assembled in such numbers, 

 and assumed such a menacing attitude, tliat the 

 maa;istrate was terrified and allowed De Lang-e to 

 go out on bail. From the medical evidence at the 

 trial it appeared that the Kaffir had been mal- 

 treated in a frightful manner, the bodv being- 

 covered with l)ruises and raw j)laces from top to 

 toe. He had also received internal injuries to the 

 lungs and to the stomach, which were full of blood 

 from ruptured blood vessels ; the kidneys were 

 severely inflamed. The external injuries, the 

 district surgeon stated, must have been caused 

 partly by some blunt instrument, such as a 

 " sjambok," and partly by dragging the body 

 along the ground by means of a leather strap 

 Avhich was foiuid attached to the wrist. There 

 was no doubt that death had resulted from the 

 injuries inflicted. The chief witness for the prose- 

 cution was Jantje, a native in the employ of a 

 storekeeper, who deposed that De Lange had 

 arrived on the afternoon of November 12th at his 

 master's store with the deceased in charge, and 

 that at De Lange's request Jantje was told by his 

 master to take the deceased to Rustemburg. Ac- 

 cording to this "svatness many sores and bruises 

 were visible on the Kaffir on his arriMil at the 



