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In reply to a question from the Officer in Command of the Trooks, Is Callings confirmed the statement

made in one of Mr Snowden's letters Heat I hand laid before the Council;

that the iten

of

at ruce

securing Auffam's arrearance was abandoned

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because "there were sears that the.

nian would comsuit

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inicine at the right if a policeman": In the acting chief Justice's letter on this cubject a copy of which so enclosed) - It Snowden ores not mention a policeman. but says it was feared that "the "light of a Summons might incapitate "the act (of cuicine)" The Attorney General is, however, clear that they

considered the question of sending a Soliceman, but it was abandoned for

День bear of

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it's leading to immediate inicide The result this forbearance

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was that Auffam went publicly in the Macas Stearner at two o'clock that day.

and, come hours after the criminal Aan exceper, the grand

was related

by the Acting chief Justice to the acting Coloured Sentory

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Until I receive the Attorney General's reply to my

Letter

the 216 Eustant, which conveyed to him the Crown Soliciton's version of what tork place, I cannot express any opinion rersecting his conduct in the matter. As to the proceedings of the

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