CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12] — Page 121

have to decide matters solich ought to be decided by the Governor upon the spot.

My firesent residence srous the only me conpied and suitable dwelling house which I found here return from sick leave, _ and the proprietor refused to lot it to me, on to part with it except by way of sale.

It is the most remote of the Suburban houses to the South West, and is commanded from the tear by an unfrequented and indeed unfinished trad

of orn elevation higher than the top of the chimneys, the houve being built on the side of

Steep hill. The board bold

in front of the hole was the scene

a

a

last year of

most horrid murder done upson an Ouropen by Some Cinamon, for the purpose of obtaining on bushand The reward offered at Cautour. The handless trunk

o found Some days after the deed, in the ditch by toadside, a four yards

wow

the

gate.

on

The West from my front

Within the last six months there howe been Several underous assaults by blinamen upon European gentlemen in broad day within a few beundred yourds of the same spot . The villains in all causes decomped with their plunder, although presented by accident from completing their crime the intended victimes. The latest of these instances secured only tion on. three weeks

at a distance fust nore than a

hundred yards from my western garden walle

or

ago,-

the murder

fitte 18 the

·1858.

of the 2nd de 1858.

of the 18th

of the

1858.

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that the

Rewards for European heads are said to have been again offered from Couton and Sunon of late. It is certains that the kidnappings and beheadings of Europeans have recommenced in this River. It is not open to His Excellency to day "Government has nothing to do with!

my recupying. "Solitary houve : _ for in fact it has become such through the direct action of Sir John Barring's Government.

When I made the purchase, I did so on the faith of having at least such protection as the immediate vicinity of a police

-vicinity of a police station in the rear of the premises could bestow, and that Police Station! within less than two mouths after I had paid my

funneliave money was Anddenly ordered to be dismantles,

and the Police Detachment to be removed elsewhere.

It was my demonstrance against that decision- whack cliented from this Excelleway the farmable no

above alluded to:~

Assurances

orable assuranc

which have never been.

- fulfilled, and are now, as I firesme, revoked.

Consequently I have us better hope of protection tham is afforded by the remote chance of the Solitary policeman who patrols Caine's Road from Bart to West "happening to be within hail at the moment of one- attempt upon my life or property

The lengthen of his beat is just one muile ! What seems to

to give.

que otu.

additional claim.

to Sir John Boring's Consideration, is the foret that