‘Aden - Trials of Prisoners’

Title:

‘Aden - Trials of Prisoners’

Date:

1844/1845

Description:

Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence, and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai]. The correspondents are the Government of Bombay and Captain Stafford Bettesworth Haines, British Political Agent at Aden. It is the first in a series of five items concerning Aden (the others are IOR/F/4/2100/98227, 98228, 98229, and 98230).The item concerns two trials at Aden. The first was a case of accidental homicide resulting in a sentence of three months’ imprisonment, and the second was a case of wilful murder resulting in a sentence of death. The item contains detailed court records.Letters from the Government of Bombay mention other events concerning Aden, including proposals to build a civil hospital, and the outbreaks of smallpox and the failure of vaccination against it.The item includes a contents page and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Draft 683, P.C. [Previous Communication] 4878, [Season 18]45’, ‘Vol: 1’, ‘Collection No 7 of No 91’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 176 and terminates at f 215, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the bottom right corner of the recto side of each folio.Pagination: the item also contains an original pagination sequence.

Language:

English

Type:

Archival item

Type (Narrower):

Other Texts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Vaccination programmes
Trials
Public hospitals
Murder trials

Geographic region:

Aden

Rights:

رخصة حكومة مفتوحة

Identifier:

81055/vdc_100097989712.0x000001_ar
81055/vdc_100097989712.0x000001_en
IOR/F/4/2100/98226
IOR/F/4/2100/98226

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