CO129-111 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1866 [1-2] — Page 374

2.

I have

of

this case,

a

full recollection

as on my return to

the Colony in July 1862, I found

the entire Mercantile

Community in much cxcitement about it.

مجھ

M. Pauncefote,

reting Attorney General,

Now

was

Stanford's Counsel on the occasion, and I have asked that Gentlerman

for particulars which

in the enclosed letter.

4.

I am

of

are

given

opinion that

there is nothing whatever in the

case

itself to justify any

leniency towards Stanford, beyoud all doubt acted in

who

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collusion with the greater Criminal Rustomjee.

4.

367

The Staternent of Wr

Douglas, Superintendent of

Victoria Gaol is also transmitted

herewith, and

particulars of

gives further the case.

The special grounds

adduced by M: Douglas, particululy

that based

on

Stanford's Hospital

services to which the Colonial

Surgeon bears testimony, may, I think, reasonably have weight, but I would not recommend

Sentence beyond

any

remission

of Se

what is laid down in the scale

this view

of remission, and if

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