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Recently thcro was a lawsuit at Bordeni, near Galatss, between a landowner and some peasants. The maijistvatea lodged .it tho landam cv 3, Thcpcasants believed thclatter would brilw the magistrate, and about two hundred of lliem went with cudgels and struck the landowner dead, ami would kvo sot tiro to Ilia lionso hail' not help come, Asinti" inquiry tliey refused to tell who had committed the crime, many wero tortured in different manners, 801110 wero bound to trues without their hats, and their aces towards the sun, and water was refusal tlicm. Others had their hands tied on their backs and a lyso picco of wood set in, Tho magistral threatened to sot .tiro to tlicir beards if thoy.did not stand upright. Other sorts of cruelties arc related with other prisoners. A singular caso also occurred recently. Tho Mayor tortured two inolTenBivo men to malto thorn confo-:s that they bad stolen. One of tho tortured men, Constacbo Negoits.:, said that ilw Mayor, Gtivril Ncculan, not only whippod him without ceasing, mailing him black and blue, but gave him (luring five days noither food nor water.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1716, 21 June 1884, Page 4
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186UNKNOWN Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1716, 21 June 1884, Page 4
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