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File 959/1914 Pt 2 'Abyssinia: Order in Council. Recovery of maintenance charges of prisoners convicted in Abyssinia and confined in Aden District Prison.' [351r] (627/878)
The record is made up of 1 item (30 folios). It was created in 24 Nov 1926-14 Feb 1929. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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Annex 3.
British Legation,
Addis Ababa.
June 24th 1924.
Heport on the murder oi an Abyssinian woman said
to be nailed Kulatwa with which'Thakur Singh is charged.
At about 3 o’clock on the morning of Wednesday, June
18th 1924, A/L Lafadar Dalip Singh was called by Thakur
Singh, the prisoner, coming to look for him, who said that
he had just killed an Abyssinian woman in his room.
/
After seeing the corpse, the Lafadar and other sowars l
accompanied the prisoner to the Legation and woke up Hr.
Thomas, who proceeded to the scene of the crime, and after
ascertaining that the woman was dead, gave orders for the
prisoner to be put in chains.
I was informed of the matter at about half past seven
the same morning, and about eight o’clock with Hr. Thomas
and Dr. Renaud, who is acting as Legation doctor, I went to
the sowars’ quarters, where the doctor examined the body and
gave a certificate of death.
A .303 bullet has passed through the brain. In my
presence the bullet was found in the wall, at a slightly
lower level than where the head must have been; it had also
passed through the wood-work of the bed. This confirms the
prisoner’s statement that the woman was asleep in bed when
he fired. The body was lying on the floor where the prisoner
says he threw it. Both of them had been drinking during the
night, but appar e ntly not to excess.
It appears that nobody heard the fatal shot, but that
immediately afterwards the prisoner went outside and in
unloading
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This part contains papers, mainly correspondence, largely relating to the recovery by the Government of India of the cost of maintaining in Aden District Prison prisoners convicted by British authorities in Abyssinia.
The correspondence is mostly between the following:
- The Foreign Office and the Treasury.
- The Foreign Office and HM Consul, Addis Ababa.
- The Foreign and Political Department of the Government of India, and HM Consul, Addis Ababa.
- The Government of India, Foreign and Political Department, and the Government of Bombay From c. 1668-1858, the East India Company’s administration in the city of Bombay [Mumbai] and western India. From 1858-1947, a subdivision of the British Raj. It was responsible for British relations with the Gulf and Red Sea regions. Political Department.
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- File 959/1914 Pt 2 'Abyssinia: Order in Council. Recovery of maintenance charges of prisoners convicted in Abyssinia and confined in Aden District Prison.'
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- 38r:476v
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