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They were sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment each. 



The following, from the address of the Attorney General, explains 

 the model of the scene of the murder. 



The Attorney General gave a topographical description of the estate 

 and its surroundings in connection with which he stated that a model had 

 been prepared by Mr. Fred May, under the supervision of Mr. Haynes. 

 It was to a certain extent drawn to scale, but as the whole, if drawn to 

 scale, would occupy a much greater part of the Court, they had to rely 

 on the measurements. The actual measurements would be given by Mr. 

 Haynes. He drew the attention of the jury to the fact that along the 

 front of Mr. Martin's estate, Anna Catharina, there was a two-roomed 

 cottage with a kitchen at the back. In the eastward room of this cottage 

 the accused Jugdeo, former manager of Noitgedacht, lived with his wife, 

 Surat. There was no other house intervening between this and a koker 

 which was to be found at the eastern end of Noitgedacht. One next came 

 upon a four-roomed cottage where the accused James and another man 

 named Jacob lived after which the entrance to Noitgedacht was reached. 

 Here there was a gateway to prevent Molly going out and cattle going in, 

 and just beyond the entrance of the estate, the house occupied by the 

 accused Sewdin, at the time of the occurrence, was to be found. Before 

 Mr. Schulz went to live on the estate Sewdin lived in two rooms. Next to 

 his house was a cow-pen and then a ten-roomed range in which Paul — 

 promoted to the position of driver on the estate — lived, together with a 

 man named Wally Mohamed, another named Gangadeen, a witness to be 

 called by the Crown as one who saw the taking out of the eyes of Molly, 

 and Boodhoo, the watchman. Going along the front of the estate one 

 came to the end of Noitgedacht proper, to the schoolhouse of the 

 Canadian Presbyterian Mission and at that point the west side-line dam 

 of the estate came out to the public road and then the annexed, 

 L'Esperance, began. About a mile from the Noitgedacht house on the 

 right of the road was the rumshop of one Cheddie, the father of Annie 

 Cheddie, a witness for the Crown in the case, who, if further evidence 

 could have been produced, would have been also appearing in the dock in 

 the company of another person named Kowlessur, who was, however, not 

 being called as a witness. 



Further on one came upon the house of a small farmer named John 

 Pariag, who was not only a witness in the case but an actual accomplice 

 in the crime, He lived here with his wife and with Mahadeo who shared 

 a room of the house. There was a mud verandah attached to the house 

 and in it a doorway leading into a room with part-offs. It was in this 

 room that the child was kept on the night of its abduction. There wa 

 a window in the wall of the room with a trap, on lifting which anyone 

 would be able to peer into the room from outside and would have been 

 able to see at the time of the occurence a katia (East Indian bed) which 

 was to be found there until this day. 



