The thieves openly boasted that nothing would be done to them; the next day, one was allowed to escape, the other, a notorious criminal, was condemned to six months' imprisonment.

Mr.Krueger regarded this penalty as excessive, remitted three-fourths of the sentence, and had him discharged unconditionally.
The police of Johannesburg, a town almost entirely inhabited by English, do not speak English--an excellent method of ensuring order! They are chosen from among the worst types of Boers, some of whom are the descendants of English deserters and Kaffir women; whence comes the fact that some bear English names.

The policeman Jones, who killed Edgar, is a case in point.
The murder of Edgar was a small matter in the same way as the Dreyfus case was a small matter; only when a case of this nature arises, it reveals a condition of things so grave that it excites widespread feeling at once.
Edgar was an English workman, a boilermaker, who had been a long time in Johannesburg; a well-conducted man and generally respected.

He was going home, one Sunday night in 1898, when three drunken men insulted and set upon him.

He knocked one of them down.