She did not think any thing was then done to her brother.' Wit ness stated- there was a rope attached to the stairs in the house. It was used to tie her brother up and prevent him from running away. She had seen her brother tied up. The rope was placed on his foot and was fastened with a padlock. He was tied to the 3tairs for six weeks. The rope was sometimes taken off wfjen her brother went to bed. She had heard her brother ask her father to let him loose. He did not always let him loose when he asked him to. When her father refused to let him go he used to do what ho "wanted" in bis trousers. Witness had seen her father beat him with a stick (produced), and also hie him in the face with his hand. She • bad seen marks on his face from the beating given him by her father. The marks were over the eye, and were in the shape of a bruise. This was the day before her brother died. Witness remembered her brother falling down the stairs the day he died. Only witness and her brother were in the house at the time. When her brother fell down the stairs he got up and sat on the stair case. Witness's step-mother then came in and her brother was sent upstairs. He could hardly get up and she went up behind him. Her brother stayed upstairs about ten minutes, but he was unable to come down. Witness' step mother brought, him down, and he was pub outside till dinner-time, when he was brought in again % his step-mother, and put on the staircase. Her brother remained there till her father came home at six o'clock, when he took her brother up in his arms and asked his step-mother what he would do. (Here the girl burst into tears.) The step mother replied, "She did not know." Witness stated her father then gave him some medicine and puthimin the small bed in the kitchen. Her brother stayed there till he died. 