'File No. II/9 Foreign Dept Memoranda of Information re. affairs in Persian Gulf, Maskat & Arabian Shore of the Persian Gulf. Nov '07 - Dec '08.' [‎59r] (119/132)

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(3) Saoud ibn Hamoud Rashid from July
1908 to September 1908.
(4) Saoud ibn Abdul Aziz from Septem
ber 1908.
215. (Vide para. 175 of the Memo
randum for September.) On the 26th
Murder of certain Au S" st > + M 0 r : ^ling
subjects of the Chief reported to Sir E. Grey,
udents ofTaonaf ^ f M a jor Cox had
adopted the second of the
alternatives suggested by His Majesty’s Gov
ernment in connection with the proposed
capture and trial of the culprits.
On the 5th October, Major Cox for
warded to the Tehran Legation a further report
from 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. Agent, Lingah, on the
subject. The report showed that the three
murderers, who were brothers, were still
alive and %t large, in spite of the statements
of the Persian Government to the contrary.
The pearls, belonging to the victims, had been
taken to Taona by the murderers and were
eventually sold for a sum of 1,500 dollars to
one Saad bin Abdalla Someiti, a diver, residing
at Lingah. The latter, however, was believed to
have purchased the pearls in & bond fide com
mercial transaction and to have been in no way
concerned in the crime. The investigations
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. Agent also showed that the
Zabits of Nakl-i-Amir and Taona and the
Governor of Bustek had one and all assisted
the pirates at one stage or another and had
directly or indirectly partaken of the proceeds
of the outrage ; also that a fourth local Head
man, the Zabit of the port of Moghu, had been
added to the list. Major Cox was inclined to
think that the best course was to use the details
at present brought into prominence as a basis
for another insistent demand for the payment of
compensation. He stated that if the Persian
Government would capture the men it would
be so much the better, but he earnestly depre
cated any pretended or real endeavours 0 n
their part to capture them being allowed ^
block the demand for the payment of co m .
pensation. He asked for the views or instr uc [
ticn* of the Tehran Legation on the matter.