1602
163 435
of the books ver
referred to is almost mit .
That being the case, it is obvious that the
destruction of these Books
dis absolutely and entirely
Anu
papers
remove the
-
pofsibility of proving their contents - dis
absolutely and entirely
remove the possibility
of proving the concluding part of "Charge
And A
accordingly ace fins the Commission
very properly reporting on this head, that there
'is no Evidence."
7.
The next thing that astonished Mr Day
" beyons Measure"," was alle ottery's assertion
that the absence of this evidence," (the
documentary, evidence
referred
to in the
last Paragraph, ) was a peculiar disappointment
to him :" Or this Mr Day remarks as
as follows:
" On the Contrary
d
" his enn: Statement clearly shows that until
own
" it was pronca be fore the Commission that "The Books have been destroyed,
he
was under
" the impresion that the Books had been "given ups to Mr Caldwell on behalf of " Mah. show wong for the parpone, it was assumed by him, of ensuring their destruction
I have
of
"gove carefully through the whole ettr atlay's evidence, and can
fina
indication whatever that he assumed
thing of the hink .
Mv
any -
8. the next imputation against Mr. Abay's veracity, conched in strong language,
in
my fredecessor's opinion, is basses a pow the impossibility of reomciling, in Mr. Day's view, the allusion to certain entries
in one
park of allr Alexy's reivenc =
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