(signed) H.E. Wodehouse.
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United States Consulate at Hongkong
October 18th 1876.
To the Colonial Secretary,
Honourable J. Gardiner Austin,
Colonial Secretary.
Sir,
(True Copy)
& Deputy for the Colonial Secretary.
I have the honour to inform His Excellency The Governor that having advised my Government by telegraph to the case now pending against Thomas Peabody, Master, John H. Snow, Mate, and Charles Stafford, Second Mate, of the American ship "C.O. Whitmore", charged with the murder of James H. Elwood on said vessel on the high seas, wherein the said Thomas...