Letter regarding Messrs Payne and Bhaishunker having interviewed Hurreeba Dada and that they would be requesting permission to interview Sahin and Eshwuntras too.
Letter No.38 of 1875 from Sir Lewis Pelly, Agent Governor General and Special Commissioner Acting the Baroda State to Lieutenant-Colonel L C Barton, Political Agent, Rewa Kanta [Rewa Kāntha]
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Letter informing Barton that the individuals he is enquiring about are in the charge of Frank Henry Souter and requesting he arrange the matter directly with Souter.
Instructions from Lewis Pelly, Agent Governor General and Special Commissioner, Baroda to Frederick Segrave
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The instructions inform Frederick Harboard Segrave that once he has met the Maharajah of Jeypore [Jaipur] at the Railway Station the following day he is to focus his attention on witnesses. His responsibilities will be to make available any witnesses that Henry Cleveland requests and to remain ...
Telegram from the Viceroy (Thomas George Baring, Second Baron Northbrook) to Sir Lewis Pelly
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Telegram regarding the Viceroy's presumption that the enquiry is happening under Pelly's general supervision and that no important decisions will be taken without Pelly's sanction. The telegram reminds Pelly to keep the enquiry as secret as possible and to keep the Government of India informed o...
Letter on Lewis Pelly's behalf to George Edwin Seward
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Letter, written on Lewis Pelly's behalf, instructing Seward to visit Gunput Rao Bulvant and make any necessary arrangements for his health, and that if necessary from a medical standpoint he may return to his house but under surveillance.
Letter No.15 C.P. from Charles Umpherston Aitchison, Secretary to the Government of India, Foreign Department, Camp Delhi to Sir Lewis Pelly, Agent to the Governor General and Special Commissioner Baroda
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Letter informing Pelly that those persons detained on suspicion of having been involved in the attempt to poison Colonel Robert Phayre should be kept in confinement and that any witnesses under detention should be detained until the Commission's report has been received and considered. The lett...
Witnesses and List of persons in Custody and police Surveillance
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Statements giving lists of names of individuals in custody or under police surveillance. The statements give the name of the individual, the date of their arrest or surveillance, and either the name of the person whose custody they are in or the police force responsible for the surveillance. 'St...
Letter No.34 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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Letter informing Charles Umpherston Aitchison, Foreign Secretary to the Government of India, that the Special Commission is expected to finish the following week and requesting instructions regarding proceedings against those persons, other than His Highness the Gaekwar, implicated in the plot t...
Cypher Telegram from the Viceroy, Calcutta to Sir Lewis Pelly, Baroda
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Telegram written in cypher, with decoded copy, from Thomas George Baring, Second Baron Northbrook, Viceroy of India to Lewis Pelly instructing him that every possible precaution should be taken to prevent any witness tampering and that more police support was being sent from Bombay.
'Memo. of Instructions for the Guard over the Four Prisoners in the Buildings of the Residency Office'
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Memorandum providing instructions for the guarding and care of four prisoners being detained in the Treasury Building of the Residency. The instructions include their supervision; provision of meals and clothes; and details regarding who they are and aren't permitted to communicate with. A cop...
