مرفقات لرسالة إلى وزير الدولة لشؤون الهند، رقم ١١، بتاريخ ١٥ يناير ١٨٧٥: خلاصات المحتويات من رقم ٣ إلى ٤٥ من وكيل الوزير الممارس للحكومة في الهند، فورت ويليام [و‎‎٨‎٦] (١٠٠/٧١)

were addressed by the ayah to her husband, the first directed to Baroda and
se^iceas butlOT r ' t0 Which plaCe the ayah,S husband 1,ad S™' e
14. The other two letters are from the butler to his wife, the ayah Ameena
these fnendly mention is made of the GaekwaS head and
in our lett £ 2 If"™? ^ ^ la Naik ' and tbe Arab Sowar Salim, and
111 . "'e ayah, writing to her husband, mentions that she
had been to see 1 eshwunt Eao, who told her that the Maharaja had twice or
thrice enquired when ayah would come." The avah wroto 'Vrom Bombav
to which place she had accompanied Mrs. Phayre, and it appears that Yeshwunt
Rao happened to be there at the same time.
lo. For ready reference the most remarkable passages from these letters
stwn'Tn e tbe raC mlin d
u ^ tra " slatioi ; s of the
rrP.:a„: rP : a : a;,, irem r ce aro 1 ? ttac1 '-
On my return I shall have arrangements made about you. The Maharaia 1 i PP 611 ^ 1 ^ ^11(1
twice or thrice enquired when the ayah would come."' Salam was inviud n Umbered 1 to 4s.
to my p ace of residence here He was shown attention as far as my poor 1 A rr,
circumstances would permit." p ID. 1 here Can be IIO
Jt thu b N ;k,tw„ E S r ™„7'' Y " ra <Yes '" u "' Rao) N " k h " ? 0 " bt "" h . aterer as to these
Ye8 " WU " t "■ ,01, " lk l " eo » e 10 ^ of thwn, L N 3,' bear
stations at which they were posted and received; No.^S^brenTecolni'zed'bT
the writer as per his statement lettered L; No. 4 was written by the ayah's
husband, vide his statement lettered 1),; and these documents form the strongest
corroborative evidence in proof of the statements of DaooH g 1
Sheikh Abdoolla recorded in the Appendix and lettered A., B , and D and ofthe
subsequent statements of Kurreem Xaik of Peons, Kabhai, shigram driver and
1 aizoo Itamzan also recorded and lettered respectively E F md K Tt will h .
seen by Kurreem Naik's deposition that lie admits tvtg aecomnanlld the
900 f' 0 I v ae f V v' S , PillaCC on ," ne occasio n, and to having received Rupees
-00 fiom Sahm at 1 eshwunt Rao's house, and in the hitter's presence, which sum
w as divided between him and the ayah. Kabhai, shigram driver demises to
hiving one uio-ht driven the ayah and Faizoo Ramzan from near the Residency
to one of the cty gates close to the "Havalee," and Faizoo Ramzau, jn Ws
deposition recorded and lettered K. in the Appendix, also admits to bavins
accompanied the ayah to the Havalee as described bv Kablni Mml fr ^
been taken by Salim with the ayah before the GaekwaZ ' aVlnS
17. These statements are most consistent one with the other, and to
show beyond all doubt that the ayah had been corrupted, and had several times
paid secret night visits to the Gaekwar who received her in person, that she had
been paid liberal sums of money, and that an intrigue existed, tbe obieet of
which was obvious, but will no doubt be better understood and more confidentlv
believed when my entire report has been gone into.
18. While the detectives and their Agents were at work beyond the
Residency I was daily engaged in going over and sifting the evidenci already
taken by Colonel Phayre, with the object of ascertaining whether any of the
domestic servants, or members of the Resident's establishment, had really taken
part in this heinous cri »ac. Each servant was personally questioned by me
and the result of my searching enquiry was to throw the strongest suspicion on
the Havildar of Peons by name Rowjee bin Rama. It was brought to HWit that
after all the servants had left Colonel Phayre's private room on the morning of
9th November, he was one of the last to come from it, and was afterwards seen
sitting on a bench in the verandah, from which he could not only command the
room itself, but could plainly see the table on which the glass of "sherbet" had
been placed. The Police also ascertained that for some time previous Rowjee had
been spending considerable sums of money in the bazaar inmakino- up jewellery
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