Copy Service Telegram from Sir Lewis Pelly, Baroda to the Foreign Secretary, Calcutta
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Letter reporting that he had dropped the Bhou Scindia case and had also refrained from sending the Govind Naik case to the magistrate, as well as instructing the police to refrain from further enquiry into either case.
Letter No.650 of 1875 from Sir Lewis Pelly, Agent Governor General and Special Commissioner, Baroda to Frank Henry Souter, Commissioner of Police, on Special Duty, Baroda
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Letter asking whether three individuals implicated in the attempted poisoning case, and also facing charges for breaching the act regulating the sale of poison, needed to be kept under police surveillance or whether they could be released on bail and requesting a report on the matter.
'Letter No.652 of 1875 containing an Extract from the report on Native Papers for the Week ending 27 February 1875'
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Letter enclosing an extract of a report which appeared in the native papers regarding the arrest of Bulwuntrao Auant Deo, late Nyayadhish of Baroda who it is alleged was arrested and imprisoned without being charged with any crime, and that although his alleged crime is having received bribes th...
Letter from George Edwin Seward to (William?) Jeffreys
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Letter regarding a visit from Andrew Richard Scoble and Frank Henry Souter in which they concurred that a corner of the Residency Compound should be used for a 'witness tent' and asking whether Sir Lewis would prefer a brick wall to be erected on the site or whether a tent would be sufficient.
Note from George Edwin Seward to (William?) Jeffreys
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Note requesting that Sir Lewis Pelly be shown a draft of a report on the condition of the prisoners and stating his opinion that exercise be made obligatory for them.
Letter No.28 of 1875 from Frank Henry Souter, On Special Duty, Foreign Department, Baroda to Colonel Sir Lewis Pelly, Agent Governor General and Special Commissioner, Baroda
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Letter regarding Pelly's letter No.650 of 1875 enquiring whether certain prisoners could be released on bail, and reporting on his meeting with the Cantonment Magistrate to discuss the cases in question, and that they hoped to be able to complete their enquiries into the cases and submit a repor...
Letter No.35 of 1875 from Colonel Sir Lewis Pelly, Agent Governor General and Special Commissioner, Baroda to Andrew Scoble, Advocate General of Bombay
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Letter enclosing a letter Pelly had sent to the Government of India regarding the prisoners and witnesses in custody or under police surveillance on account of their alleged involvement with the attempted poisoning of Colonel Robert Phayre. The letter goes on to discuss Pelly having refrained f...
Letter No.36 of 1875 from Colonel Sir Lewis Pelly, Agent Governor General and Special Commissioner, Baroda to the Secretary to the Government of India, Foreign Department, Calcutta
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Brief letter forwarding a copy of a letter which he had addressed to Andrew Richard Scoble.
Letter from Andrew Richard Scoble, Baroda to Sir Lewis Pelly
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Brief letter regarding the dangers of using witnesses who have been 'exposed to temptation' by friends of the Gaekwar (His Highness Malharrao), and that as such witnesses are not required to prove the case asking Pelly's permission to only call those witnesses necessary as proof in support of th...
