couple of days after the shooting.

"That the boy was shot by Van Aswegen appears clear from the two
Minnaars' evidence, who say that the boy was taken out by Van
Aswegen, and that was the last they saw of him. Kritzinger did not
arrive until Sunday morning with his commando, and everyone says he
knows absolutely nothing about the shooting of the native. I would
submit that there is absolutely nothing to connect Kritzinger with
the shooting of this boy.

"On the 3rd Charge there is no need to say anything. The Court has
already indicated that it is unnecessary to proceed further with
it.

"I now come to the 4th Charge; the only charge in which Kritzinger
was said to have been present at the shooting. In the first two
charges, Kritzinger did not appear until hours after the natives
had been shot. The only witnesses who say that Kritzinger was
present at the shooting of the natives mentioned in this charge are
natives. There appear to have been no white men present. Some one
said that Schmidt was present, but it appears he did not cross the
river. We have only native evidence to this effect, and native
evidence is most unreliable, and only one of the witnesses could
identify Kritzinger. We are, therefore, driven back to the evidence
of Jan Louw. Even if Jan Louw had given his evidence in a way that
could not be shaken, it would be dangerous to convict on the
evidence of one witness alone. Natives have no idea of dates, time,
or distances. They find it difficult to identify prisoners. We have
seen that in the case of Jan Jonkers, and that shows how much
reliance can be placed on native evidence. Jan Jonkers identifies a
man in Court as being Kritzinger who was never near the place. Four
months after a man has been killed Jan Hans goes and sees his body.
He identifies him not by the clothes he wears but by his face. Is
it possible that after being for four months on the plains of the
Orange Free State, exposed to the air and the heat, a man could
identify the face of another? And the one native witness is the
witness Jan Louw. Even if Jan Louw were a strong witness, his
evidence would not have been sufficient to convict, but Jan Louw's
evidence falls to the ground under cross-examination. How did Jan
Louw identify Kritzinger? He was taken to th