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 [‎95v] (90/100)

Salim except in passing, and I had no speech with him other than to say
salaam! I positively declare that I never received any other gift liom the
Gaekwar than this one of Rupees Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf. 60 sent to me through Salim, and that
never had any conversation with Salim about my own affairs, or m connection
with the Gaekwar excepting on the occasion mentioned. 1 never went to the
Hatoelee or spoke to the Gaekwar, and I never had any correspondence with
him either directly or indirectly other than that above detailed. Further i
say not.
Taken on oath, and duly acknowledged and signed by Pedro DcSouza in
my presence this fifth day of January 1875.
(Sd.) A. E dginton, J .C.,
Deputy Commr. of Police, Bombay.
T ee foregoing statement was duly read and interpreted by me to the said
Pedro DeSouza on the day and date above written and acknowledged by him
to be correct.
(Sd.) D inanath S oonderjee, P.,
Head Clerk, Commissioner of Police.
Appendix V.
Dated 19th August 1873.
From —G ujanun V ithul (demi-official).
To—Superintendent of Police, Ahmedabad.
A fter your arrival from Poona you had given me orders for some enquiry.
On making enquiry about the subject I have got up to this time the following
information :—
The information I have acquired before this has been communicated to
Mr. Souter before long, and for which I had spoken to you in person.
Letters addressed as A. B. are going to Moonshee Lootioola s son, who is a
Registration Clerk in the Collector's Office here. It appears that they are
coming from a teacher in the Baroda iiiUglish School, ihis information is
obtained by making some skillful arrangement for which I had informed you
in person.
As regards the Baroda affairs the following information is acquired up to
this time.
There being disunion between His Highness Mulhar llao Gaekwar and the
present Resident, Mulhar Rao was speaking that the Resident should be poisoned.
He also told Dajee Sahib, a Superintendent of the Baroda ice factory An East India Company trading post. , to do this.
But they could not do it, and now it appears that they dare not do such act
through fear.
Yeshwanta Yawalya is a dearest Jasood of Mulhar Rao Maharaj. He appears
to be such a man as to become privy to such bad acts. It appears from the
enquiry that at present he is engaged in the Khalpat of Jadoo and Anoostan.
It is found from the enquiry that the talk about the pregnancy ot Mulhar
Rao's Ranee is false. In truth she is not pregnant.
A man by name Vaman Rao, a relation or servant of Gunpat Rao Bapoo of
Akola, had gone to Bombay and Calcutta some time ago, and brought mtorma-
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