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Montague handed to him by the Police, although known to him was not mentioned by him to the

Serjeant Connors of the

Adjutant

by his

picquet the only,

man woko

account seems to have

been in a position to have brought

to

who shot Lonsdale,

notice the manu the riotous Soldier who

Lo

severely

expiated his breach of discipline

took

no mlau

to do so.

The conduct of this

this fieqnet

Contrasts mufavourably with the spirit displayed by the Picquet on the following evening exerted themselves to secure the

new after whom they had been sent and with much success.

11. The Court cannot but remark as most unsatisfactory, the complete

the

failure of any one in the

one in the Regiment

to acerquise

single individual

the

while engaged, out of the

many

concerned in these acts of misconduct.

Finally the Court after careful consideration is of opinion, that the rist on the 185 bectember 1854, might have been checked, had the picquet

fresent taken more action.

There abfears to have been

myleet in not

great

reerqnising or sceuring

one of the risters on

아

a me

the 13th September,

on the

Soldier while in the act of