He recovered consciousness before he died, and denounced you both as having made a sudden and altogether unprovoked attack upon him.

He had, he affirmed, discovered that you were meditating a breach of your parole, and that he had informed you that the privileges extended to you would, therefore, be withdrawn.
Then, he said, transported by rage, you sprang upon him.

He drew his sword and attempted to defend himself, but the two of you, closing with him, hurled him through the window, in spite of his struggles." The other officer had, while the doctor was speaking, been examining the writing-table.
"I do not see the papers he spoke of," he said to the doctor.
Then, turning to the sergeants of the guard, he asked if any papers upon the table had been touched.

The sergeant replied that no one had gone near the table since he had entered the room.
"In that case," the officer said, "his mind cannot have been quite clear, although he seemed to speak sensibly enough.

You heard him order me, doctor, to fold up a report and attesting statement directed to the Minister of the Interior, and to post them immediately?
It is clear that there are no such documents here.