QSA88109 1864 Letter from Police Magistrate to Commissioner of Police 25 October [1], Police Magistrate's Letterbook, Maryborough, DR83521

The Commissioner of Police Brisbane 64. 846

October 25^th 64/125.

Sir

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 10^th Instant, and in reply to state that I have hitherto refrained from reporting on M^r Corfield's letter respecting the Conduct of Serg^t Brown inasmuch as I myself at the request of the Honourable The Attorney General had to proceed to Gigoom to hold a Magisterial Investigation into the Cause of death of the two Aboriginals lying dead in that Vicinity, and as to whom suspicion had attached to Brown -

The Inquiry was held by me on the 15^th Instant and I conceive that under the circumstances the best report I could furnish you with would be a copy of the evidence taken on that occasion, [on right] which

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which I now forward under separate cover, of course it was incompetent for me as a Justice of the Peace to call upon Brown for a statement in reply to the Charges made against him, as he was suspected of having committed a felony - and had he been arrested every word either uttered or penned by him would have been used against him, but on my return from Gigoom he sent me in a report which I also transmit with the above papers -