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 [‎95r] (89/100)

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Appendix T.
No. 449, dated Bombay, 30th December 1874.
From— Surgeon W. Gray, Acting Chemical Analyzer to Government,
To—F. Soutek, Esq., Commissioner of Police, Bombay.
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt from the hands of Mr-
Superintendent Brown of your letter No. A., dated 30th December 1874.
Enclosed in this letter was a sealed envelope, the seal being unbroken. It was
labelled 44 powder found in the pocket of Rowjee Havildar Custodian; police sergeant; jail or prison guard. 's cross belt on the
25th of December 1874," and contained a small paper packet in which were
grains seven of white powder. I have examined this white powder and find
it to consist of common white arsenic.
Appendix U.
Pedro DeSouza, Native Christian, states:—
I am about thirty-seven years of age, and have for more than twenty-five
years past been in service of Colonel R. Phayre, the late Resident at Baroda.
I have been serving that gentleman as his butler for the last fifteen or sixteen
years, and before that I filled several situations of different kinds in his house
hold. When Colonel Phayre w as appointed to the office of Resident at Baroda
which was, I think, in the month of March 1873. I accompanied him to that
place, lived in 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 served him there from that time until the
month of September last, when I obtained leave of absence from him and
proceeded to Goa, my native country. I left Baroda on the 3rd October last,
went to Goa, remained there about a fortnight, and returned to Baroda on the
3rd November, one month after my departure. I know one Salim, a Mahomedan,
who resides at Baroda and is a Jassood in the service of His Highness the
Gaekwar. I have known this man Salim from the time I first went to Baroda
with Colonel Phayre as above stated. He used to come 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.
twice a week regularly during all the time I stayed there. The Gaekwar
always came twice a week—on Mondays and Thursdays—to pay a sort of official
visit to the Resident, and on these days Salim always preceded His Highness to
give notice of his coming. Saliin always brought w ith him on these occasions a
tray of fruit as a sort of nuzzerana or tribute of respect. In the month of August
last when I first thought of obtaining leave from my master to go to Goa I
was short of money, and on seeing Salim 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. one day I said :—
" I am thinking of going to my native country for a month but am badly off
for money, my wife is pregnant, and the expenses on her account and for
travelling will be heavy; will you entreat the Maharaja to give me some
money for this purpose ? Salim replied that he would speak to the Maharaja
and bring me the money. No particular sum w r as named by either of us.
1 made this request to Salim, because I had heard that the servants of previous
Residents had obtained similar favors from the hands of the Gaekwar. Salim
himself had told me this many times before I made my said request to him.
About a fortnight after I had so spoken to Salim, he came to me in my 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. and said :—" The Maharaja has sent you these rupees Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf. . I told
him what you said." I thanked him very much, took the rupees Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf. he offered
me, and he went away. I counted the rupees Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf. as he gave them to me, and
said:—"Here are sixty rupees Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf. of Baroda Currency which are equal to fifty
Bombay Rupees Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf. ." Two or three days after this, or on his next visit 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. , Salim met me in the compound 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 said:—"You
come and see the Maharaja. If you will agree to come I w r ill bring a
carriage to take you." On hearing this I said:—" I will never come to
the Uamelee {i.e., Palace)." He replied:—"If you cannot come now I will
bring a carriage for you whenever you wish to come." To this I again said :—
" I will never come!" After my return to Baroda from Goa I never saw
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