Enclosures of letter to Her Majesty's Secretary of State for India, No.11, dated 15 January 1875: Nos. 3 to 45 of Abstract of Contents, from the Officiating Under-Secretary to the Government of India, Fort William [‎76r] (49/100)

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The prisoner's examination is attached.
From this examination it will be seen that the prisoner's motive in volun
teering his statement obviously is to divert suspicion from himself by laying it
on the Maharaja's Arab Sowar In the East India Company army and later Indian Army, an ordinary native cavalryman or mounted cavalryman. Salam. The prisoner notices as a suspicious
circumstance, which it undoubtedly was, the unusually early attendance at the
Hesidency of the Arab Sowar In the East India Company army and later Indian Army, an ordinary native cavalryman or mounted cavalryman. Salam on the morning of Monday the 9th, but
he professes to be utterly unable to explain it.
The prisoner, however, volunteered certain information regarding Salam's
occupation and antecedents, which tends to explain the ground for suspicion in
the prisoner's mind. It is noticeable, however, that the prisoner has utterlv
repudiated his own connection with Salam, which is notorious, and which con
stitutes one of the main grounds of suspicion against himself.
The Resident was particularly struck with one of the answers given by the
prisoner, in which he states that ever since the Resident returned/row Nowsaree
in May last, Salam had never been to his room at the Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. .
The allusion by the prisoner to the Resident's return from Nowsaree ap
pears to have much significance, as it was entirely spontaneous has never been
spoken of in his presence, and tends to confirm the Resident's suspicion that
Vide paragraph 2G of Confidential the COllSpirclCV to poison llim Was chiefly COUCOCted
Report, No. 379-1271. dated 17th during his residence at Nowsaree in the month of
' m "" HrlS/4 April and May last, when the prisoners Faizoo
Ramzan and the Hamul Govind Baloo were both left together in charge of the
Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. , and may have passed as much of their time as they chose in^the city.
On being pressed regarding the spontaneous allusion to the Resident's
return from Nowsaree, the prisoner volunteered the extraordinary statement
that he forbad Salam from coming to him, but on further pressing the prisoner
as to the reason for forbidding his coming, he stated after much prevarication
that Salam was never in the habit of coming to him at all.
The prisoner also denied emphatically that on the morning of Mondav, the
9th, he ever went into the dining-room at all. As he was seen to l?o into the
dining-room by two witnesses, Abdoolla and Runchod Mussal, and as the dining-
room is only 15 paces distant from the Resident's private office room, the signi
ficance of this denial is obvious. Had the prisoner gone into the dining-room
as he is shown to have done, he could easily have gone into the Resident's
private office room by the back road outside the Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. without bein"- seen
by any one except the llamal Govind Baloo if in the room at the time, which
it appears from his own statement he was.
The prisoner denies emphatically that he saw Madhowrao Sowar In the East India Company army and later Indian Army, an ordinary native cavalryman or mounted cavalryman. on the
morning of Monday, the 9th, although he saw
Yeshwant Rao Jassood and the Arab Sowar In the East India Company army and later Indian Army, an ordinary native cavalryman or mounted cavalryman. meet
the Assistant Resident on his return to the Resi
dency on the morning of Monday, November 9th.
The Assistant Resident states 'that Madhowrao
Sowar In the East India Company army and later Indian Army, an ordinary native cavalryman or mounted cavalryman. was present with Yeshwant Rao Jassood and Salam when he returned
to the Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. . As Madhowrao Sowar In the East India Company army and later Indian Army, an ordinary native cavalryman or mounted cavalryman. died suddenly under verv suspicious
circumstances shortly after the attempt was made to poison the Resident, the
denial of the prisoner that he saw him on the morning when the attempt was
made is most suspicious.
It will also be observed that the accused acknowledges that he has no
expenses in the Camp Bazaar, thus the one hundred rupees Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf. found in his box
on the 9th cannot reasonably be accounted for.
The fact that the prisoner Faizoo Ramzan himself volunteered the statement
that he suspected the Maharaja's Arab Sowar In the East India Company army and later Indian Army, an ordinary native cavalryman or mounted cavalryman. Salam in consequence of the
unusually early attendance of the latter at the Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. on the morning in
question, the Resident has been induced to enquire more narrowly into the
time that the prisoner himself came on duty on the morning of Monday,
November 9th.
Note .—In the accused's examination
of 11th November 1874, he dis
tinctly denied having even seen the
Assistant Resident return from shoot
ing, or having been seen speaking to
the Arab Sowar In the East India Company army and later Indian Army, an ordinary native cavalryman or mounted cavalryman. Salam.
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