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store. Jantje then related in a very graphic 

 manner how De Lange presently overtook him as 

 he was leading the unwilling and weary prisoner 

 alono-, statins: that he was dissatisfied with his slow 

 jorogress. De Ijange, after getting off his horse 

 and thrashing the deceased, got on again, and b}- 

 means of a long rein fastened to the hoy's left 

 Avrist, dragged him along the road. This, he 

 asserted, De Lange repeated many times, alter- 

 nately dismounting to shower blows on deceased 

 with his " sjambok," and mounting again to drag 

 him along the ground by the rein round the TVTist. 

 Finally, De Lange, after kicking deceased, and 

 stamping with his foot on his neck, chest, and 

 stomach, left him and rode off to a farmhouse near 

 by to get more assistance, instructing Jantje to go 

 on meanwhile, and if the Kaffir would not walk to 

 drag him if necessary, instructions which Jantje 

 feared to disobey. De Lange presently returning, 

 commenced the same ill-treatment as before, and 

 further seized deceased hj the throat, holding him 

 so tightly that the tongue protruded, all but 

 suffocating him. Eventually the poor wretch 

 entirely gave in, and had to be taken to a l^lack- 

 smith's shop in the neighbourhood, where he was 

 tied up by De Lange, and watch set over him. 

 Jantje's evidence was corrol^orated by that of his 

 master, l^y the medical evidence, and by two other 

 witnesses. De Lange then proceeded to Rustem- 

 burg, where he spent the night. The following 

 morning he returned to fetch his prisoner, but 

 death was before him, for half nn hour previously 



