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a nervous, exoitable temperament, reported his visit
to her husband, and when the latter enquired whether Fr.
Bullin had behaved himself properly she invented the story
told by her either to tease her husband or to impress him
with her virtuous qualities, little expecting that the
matter would go further,
Mrs. Xavier had admitted that
the subsequent arrangements made with regard to the Friday
were against her own wishes, and that the part she played.
was entirely due to her husband's instructions. She had
asked your Committee that Mr. Bullin should not receive a
punishment so severe as that of dimissal.
6/- Your Committee are unable to accept Mr. Bullin's version
of what took place. The evidence given by Mr. and Mrs. Xavier
and by Mr. Botelho was clear and precise and no discrepancy in
any detail ovuld be detected.
Mrs. Xavier, who is quite a
young womANI, told her story in a quiet straight-forward manner
mr.
and her demeanour was modest. It is hardly credible that ##
and Mrs. Xavier should, on the Tuesday evening, have fabricated
in detail an untrue story and that Mr. Xavier should have sought
out the Head of the Sanitary Department as soon as his office
opened on the following morning, when he admittedly did not