Original Documents on Aborigines and Law
1797-1840
Published by the Centre for Comparative Law History and Governance of Macquarie University, and State Records NSW
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Document 14a
Enclosures[1]
[60]
[24/14A ]
Copy 25 August 26
Sir,
I have the honor of your letter of the 22nd Inst
You state that a black native has been killed under "peculiar circumstances". If you will explain what those peculiar circumstances were, you will enable me to make the necessary enquiries.
I have the honor to be
Sir
Your Obedient Servant
R Scott
W Dunn Esq
Coroner.
[61] [incomplete version of pg 60]
Note
[1] For the trial of Lowe, see R. v. Lowe, 1827.