savagely cut up and mutilated by the Kaffirs in the district of Vryheid,
Transvaal.

Eventually we were placed in such a position that we hardly knew what to
do with armed natives. What if they refuse to surrender? Shoot them ...
and then you are a murderer. Let them go ... and then you will pay the
penalty. It was perplexing to know how the British wished us to act. The
Boers, regardless of consequences, did what they thought right.

For the sake of such as were interested in my trial, I submit in full
the charges, my evidence, and the addresses of the prosecutor and
counsel for the defence:--

_Charge Sheet_.

The prisoner, Pieter Hendrik Kritzinger, a burgher of the late
Orange Free State, and ex-Assistant Chief Commandant of the
(so-called) Federal forces, is charged with:--

1st Charge:--

_Murder_.

In that he, at Grootplaats, Murraysburg, on or about the 15th of
February, 1901, killed and murdered Jafta and Solomon, natives,
British subjects.

2nd Charge:--

_Murder_.