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Ill-treatment of Nancy Nelson [or Neilson] by the police as alleged by Mr Moylan....

Catalogue reference: CO 321/7/24

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This record is about the Ill-treatment of Nancy Nelson [or Neilson] by the police as alleged by Mr Moylan.... dating from 1875 Sep 4 in the series Colonial Office: Windward Islands Original Correspondence. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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CO 321/7/24
Date
1875 Sep 4
Description

Ill-treatment of Nancy Nelson [or Neilson] by the police as alleged by Mr Moylan. [Nancy Nelson was one of a number of people arrested from the crowd that gathered during the fight between Mr Moylan and Mr Musson]. With detailed despatch from George Dundas, petition of Nancy Neilson [sic]; report of the chief of police on the petition, statements of Police Constable Wall, acting corporal Dempsey, Sergeant Williams, Corporal McCoy, Mr Plummeridge, merchant, Reverend Thomas Hugh Donnelly, Mr Newton Browne, the Honorable R S Cheesman, and Elizabeth Hazell [also arrested following the Moylan/Musson 'fracas'].

Stanford Freeling, Administrator, St Vincent No. 53. Folios 334-355

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
10959/1875
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060033/

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Colonial Office: Windward Islands Original Correspondence

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