CO129-087 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [7] & Acting Governor Mercer - 1862 [7-9] — Page 314

INDEX TO CORRESPONDENCE.

Preliminary.—Letter from Mr. Tarrant to the Clerk of Councils.

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Letter from Mr. Tarrant to the Hon'ble Mr. Smale, Attorney General, requesting him, in exercise of the functions of Grand Jury, to institute proceedings against D. R. Callwell and J. Scott, for a conspiracy to bunke enquiry into the means where by Shum Aling, & prisoner in the Victoria gaol,--was wrongfully convicted of Kidnapping.-page 1

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Abstract of the several papers submitted to Mr. Attorney General Smule, in proof of the fraudulent means employed by D. K. Caldwell to procure Shum Ahing's conviction and imprisonment, so that he might be unable to give evidence of the intimacy which had existed by- tween him (Caldwell) and the convicted pirate Mahi-chow Wang ;-and also in proof of the conspiracy between Caldwell and Scott, Governor of the gaol, to stop enquiry into that conviction, and to continue the imprisonment and torture of the wrongfully convicted man-page 9

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Mr Attorney General Smale's reply to Mr. Tarrant, expressing his opinion that it was not competent in him to take evidence on oath, and suggesting application to a Police Magistrate.—