ملف ٢/٩ II "رقم. ٢/٩ مجلد II القضايا الجنائية" [و‎‎٩‎٤] (٤٢٢/١٨٧)

i •
\ '
A/
V
To the Officiating Ruler of Kuwait.
,Vith reference to your letter dated the 1st RajaF"TT5?> ,R -^Lative to
C^-\ " *
the revolver, which yoior man * Abdullah bin i^.V -Ali only brousht
fo me to-day, I v/as ^oing to have written to Y.E, on the subject
in any case.
il, late Interpreter, Ibrahim, had a revolver which, as Y«S 0 is
probably awa.re, was stolen from him over a year ago. On
Wednesday evening my Engineer, tTamil, saw a dallal in the suq with
a revolver in his hand which at once struch him as being so like
tre one stolen from Ibrahim that his suspicion was aroused and he
took it from the dallal. On Thursday morning he telegraphed to
lorahim asking him to telegraph * the number of his missing
revolver, and he refilled the same day ti^t it was No. 252161, which
is the number on the revolver in ’question.
I have carefully ascertained from the telegraph office that Jamil
sent no other telegram to Ibrahim except the one in which he asked
him to wire the number of the revolver, and that neither he nor
anyone else sent him any telegram from which he could possibly know
what the number on the revolver was. I think', therefore, that Y.S.
v/ili agree tuat uliere can be little jioubt tnao the revolver is the
one which was stolen from Ibrahim, though I have no doubt that your
man Aoaullah bought it in all good faith.
To make absolutely certain, however, I have telegraphed to the
Deputy Commissioner of Police, Basrah, under whom Ibrahim is now
serving, asking him to ask him several further particulars about
it and also to Mr D*Hello, who was in charge of the Agency at the
ti le oi the theft asking him what he remembers of it, and will write
« * I g I ' Rp p
again when I receive their replies. Jamil has, of course, handed
over the revolver to me, and, if you agree, I will keep it till then.
It was i\/rong of Jamil to take the revolver from the dallal without
first obtaining your permission to do so through me and I regret
that he should have done so*