CO129-088 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1862 [10-12] — Page 263

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and "Atton" will re-appear at the Treasury

Monday.

to

on

All I have le observe in reference to the investigation at the Police

received every

Magistrate

Office

Cissistance

from

is that I

the Polies

and that when duly cantioned

by etto May agumist making any

Statement

which he might Criminate himself, "Allow" positively asserted that he had returned to the Greasury immediately after leaving the Bank at 9 octook on the first instants whereas he Continued absent from 2 until nearly 4

o clock & M. he also accounted

absence

་ ་ ང་ ང་

his house from

for

his

10 oclock P.M.

the 2nd instant until 3 o-clock a.m.

on the third instant by stating that he had

h be let his

do know what had

occurred at the Treasury.

The First Shroff, Ahlong at the close

of the investigation at the Police Court stated he did not suspect the Second: Shroff who had

han

a cerfa

to the notes

as

well

us

himself

-but that he thought the notes might have.

been taken

you off

his table

by

some Stranger

outside the Counter whilst his "Hatona's "-

attention was drawn to some

Payment

on

Receipt - this might have been done, he thought, by.

some one

surreptitiously passing

his hand into the opening through which

the

some

others

Payments

ments

some

of

OV

were made and seezing upon-

the notes whilst he

was (n

Counting

whilst his back was turned to

applicant for Payment of Salaries or

a

to some one

paying duw at the Treasury-

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