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rain. Then in open truck to Springfontein, and two nights’ rain. A pretty, gentle young
woman, speaking good English.
MR. AND MRS. G. W.
Lived at De Wet’s Kraal, Rouxville, but have four or five farms. Evidently very well off, and a
very nice woman. Six children, five of whom are in camp ; the eldest, a lad of seventeen, the British
said they would take under their protection, but they protected him badly, for the boy, angry that his
people were all taken prisoners, escaped and joined the Boers.
Mr. G. W. had fought for ten months. Then he got fever, and was therefore sick in hospital at the
time of Prinsloo’s surrender. Coming out of hospital, he went home and took the oath of neutrality. He
was allowed passes to go from one to the other of his farms, but had not used the same.
In November a commando suddenly appeared on the farm. They had with them two wounded
men. Her husband was away from home helping a neighbour about some sheep at another farm. She
had not the remotest idea the Boers were coming. They asked her to take in the two wounded men.
She gave them all a meal, as they demanded it. Numbers of times she has fed crowds of British
soldiers, and has treated both the same. Mrs. W. says she always believed, in common with her
countrywomen, that it was actual duty and law to take in wounded men of either army. She would
equally that day have taken in British wounded. Had often done so.
She was sending a man to report the presence of Boers on her farm when the Boers stopped her
saying if she did they must shoot the messenger. They said they were going to report themselves by
attacking the British near by, and went and did so.
Twenty days afterwards, November 27th, Lieut. A. was sent, with fifty men, to seize herself and
her husband. Reason given was that a commando had been there and two wounded taken in.
They were taken to Rouxville, where they were kept seven days, he in prison, she in a house.
Then the children were brought, and she was sent with them to Bloemfontein Camp. Later Mr. G.W.
was also sent to Bloemfontein and lodged in prison pending his sentence. He had been tried at
Rouxville (or Aliwal), and, after the lapse of two months, has been sentenced here on the strength of
the papers sent from the other town. He has been given two years’ imprisonment, with hard labour,
and is now working as a convict in Bloemfontein ; while his nice wife and five children inhabit one
tiny corrugated iron room in the Camp. All but one sleep on the floor.
Mr. W. was sentenced on native evidence alone, supported by English soldiers. No witnesses
were called on his side, neither the white Bywoner (who came into the town) nor any of the family.
Two men and one woman, Kaffir, were the witnesses, and people round all said they had been
bribed.
Mrs. W. says her husband never broke his oath of neutrality.
P. D. W.
Aged 73. Has epileptic fits.
Never on commando ; but now at Greenpoint.
His old wife begs me daily with tears to get him released. She follows me, wailing, “ He is old,
he is sick, he never fought. Bring him back to me.”
It is astonishing how many there are in the prisons who never fought, and who are boys or quite
old men !
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— MRS. W.
—Reddersburg town. House of Government School.
—Five children ; two down with fever.
—Husband was teacher in Government School, in prison Greenpoint. Taken Oct. 11.
—In camp since Dec. 20.
—Most unwillingly. No reason given. Fled from home first to a cottage, then to father’s
house, Mr. C., minister of Reddersburg. Brought in an ambulance waggon to Edenburg, thence
by cattle truck to Bloemfontein.
—Could manage to live with old mother.
—No.
—Does not know.
—With mother in Reddersburg. Children never well since arrival, dysentery and
diarrhœa. Never had these complaints before.
Two children now with typhoid.
Mrs. W. herself suffered in her liver since arrival.
A young, nice-looking, neat woman, speaking pretty English.
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— MISS V.
—Townswoman of Brandford.
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—Her father left at home. He never fought.
—Since Nov. 28.
—Forced away from a comfortable home. No reason given her. When arrested, had not
even seen a Boer for eight months.
—Could live if sent home.
—No.
—Cows, calves, etc., all taken.
—Could go to sister in Newlands, Capetown, who is married to a Cornishman, Mr. R.
Oats.
Since arrival had dysentery, also continual headache and lassitude. Never had dysentery at
home. Was very strong.
Needs a petticoat and underclothes. Miss V., a very respectable young girl, felt keenly the
indignity of being driven through the town with six guards, with bayonets, behind her, having to carry
her parcels, and continually urged to go faster.
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