QUESTION: — Do you swear to give your voluntary statement and to tell the truth and nothing but the truth in this investigation?
ANSWER: — Yes, sir.
Q — Will you state your name, age and other personal circumstances?
A — JAIME GUMPAL Y CADAUAN, 20 years old, single, student at the Isabela State College of Agriculture, Echague, Isabela and resident of Barrio Carulay same town.
Q — Do you know why you are here at the headquarters of the 116th PC Company here at Santiago, Isabela?
A — I am presently detained here sir for being a suspect in the Rifling of a tricycle driver sir.
Q — Since when have you been detained this headquarters?
A — Since November 28, 197 3 up to the present, Sir.
Q — Do you remember if you have given any statement in connection with your being a suspect in the killing of a tricycle driver?
A — Yes, sir, I have already executed an affidavit at this head- quarters?
Q — Did you confess in your previous statement that you were the one who perpetrated the killing?
A — I denied sir.
Q — Why did you deny, are you not really the one who killed said tricycle driver?
A — At first I denied sir, because my bail bond is not yet ready but in fact I was really the one who killed said tricycle driver.
Q — When you say that you were the one who killed said tricycle driver, why is it that it is only now that you revealed?
A — Because my uncle-in-law, whose nickname is Rudy, who is the husband of my auntie Terry Ibarra, reported to this Headquarters and revealed my secret sir and besides my bail bond is already ready.
Q — What is your secret that your uncle Rudy revealed, if you know?
A — He revealed that I was the one who killed the tricycle driver sir.
Q — Do you know how did your Uncle Rudy came to know that you were the one who killed the tricycle driver?
A — He may probably learned from my father sir.
Q — Do you mean to say your father knows that you were really the one who did the killing?
A — Yes, my father knows sir, because I revealed to him at the time he fetched me up at the house of my Auntie at Calabayan Angadanan, Isabela.
Q — Could you explain why you killed the tricycle driver?
A — Because he refused to bring me to Echague, Isabela and I was drunk at that time?
Q — What weapon did you use in killing the tricycle driver?
A — Scissor sir. I used only one part of the pair of a scissor.
Q — Where did you put said weapon that you used?
A — I burned it under the ground near the toilet at Calabayan Angadanan, Isabela in the residence of my Auntie Andrea Cadauan.
Q — What time approximately when you killed the tricycle driver?
A — More or less 8:00 o'clock in the evening of November 26, 1973.
Q — How did you kill said tricycle driver?
A — I stabbed him once in his stomach sir.
Q — How did you stab said tricycle driver?
A — I stabbed him by the use of my left hand sir. He was then driving the tricycle while I was inside the sidecar.
Q — What did you do just after stabbing the tricycle drivers?
A — I immediately run away, air.
Q — Where did you proceed?
A — I proceeded northward by passing through ricefield then I went directly to Carulay, Echague, Isabela and I spent the whole night in our house then early in the morning I proceeded to my boarding house at Silauan Norte, Echague, Isabela; then I finally proceeded to the house of my Auntie Andrea at Calabayan Angadanan, Isabela.
Q — What is your attire when this incident happened particularly when you stabbed the tricycle driver?
A — Blue pants, white polo shirt and a pair of slippers.
Q — In your previous statement, you stated that on the same night when the killing of tricycle driver transpired, you slept in the house of your Auntie Pacing Carreon at Santiago, Isabela, is it true?
A — It is not true, sir because in fact I did not go to the house of my Auntie Pacing that same night.
Q — Do you know if anybody have ever seen you at the time you fled from the scene of the crime at Carulay, Echague, Isabela?
A — Yes, sir. I could remember that I had asked a group of about eight (8) persons at Quezon, San Isidro, Isabela where is the house of Remedios Batarao who is a relative of my mother.
Q — Do You have something more to add in your statement?
A — No more sir.
Q — Are You willing to sign your statement under oath, without being coerced, harm, intimidated nor promise of any reward?
A — Yes, sir.
(SGD.) JAIME C. GUMPAL
(Affiant)