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London, England, 1863-11-18 00:00:00

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The Court Martial upon Colonel Crawley.

SECOND DAY.
ALDERSHOT, Wednesday.
The proceedings were resumed this morning, all the
members of the Court being present.
Lieutenant and Adjutant Fitzsimons recalled and asked
by Colonel Pipon, officiating judge-advocate :--
Do you remember the date when the first order was given
for the sentry to be posted inside the quarters of Sergeant
Major Lillcy ?
Lieutenant Fitzsimons—l cannot remember, but I think
it must have been before the sth of May, because a non-
commissioned officer was tried that day for having posted
a sentry outside instead of inside the bungalow,
Colonel Crawley, in reply to the President, said that he
would cross-examine the witnesses in the order in which
they had made their statements. He would respectfully ask
the Court that he might be furnished with copies of the
statements made before the deputy judge advocate general
at Mhow, by order of Sir Hugh Rose, the Commander in
Chief in India.

The President replied that the Court had no such docu-
ments, nor did they know of their existence, and Sir A.
Horsford, on the part of the prosecution, said they had not
any knowledge that there were any. There had been
several soldiers examined with a view tl ascertaining who
knew anything, but ultimately Sir Hugh Rose decided to
send over every one who knew anything at all of the
matter. Even had they existed as documentary evidence,
as the prosecutor did not intend to use it, therefore the
prisoner ought not to use it either. He would say that the
inquiries which were set on foot had reference to any evi-
dence that could be produced, either for the prosecution or
for the prisoner.

Major Champion, recalled and cross-examined by Colonel
Crawley—l am unable to speak to both the bungalows in
which Sergeant Major Lilley was confined. The first one
was full and ample, and far larger than usually allotted to
sergeants in India. It was originally built as a staff ser-
geant's quarters. The large room was at feet by 16, the two
inner 14 by 10, and the two roar about 10 feet square. The
building stood on the parade ground, and there is a veran-
dah in front. The entry was from the verandah into the
large room by two doors. The large room had a roof of
masonry, vaulted and shielded by a temporary mass roof.
The inner bedrooms were roofed in the same manner,
the inner wall dividing the two , rooms with a
door and doorway in the centre. The rear of each of these
rooms led into a small apartment used as bath room. Those
apartments are ventilated by windows on the north and
south side. The model produced is on the scale of 1 inch
to 2 feet, and the thickness of the masonry walls accurately
represented on the same scale being 2 feet fully. To the
best of my belief Sergeant Major Lilley bad at the time of
his first confinement free access to 5 rooms and a verandah.
They were the same he occupied before his arrest. It is not
a correct description of the first bungalow in which Ser-
geant Major Lilley was confined that it was a bombproof
building that has since been pulled dawn as being unfit for
troops. It is not a true account of the state of things that
the first bungalow was more like an oven than a human
habitation. The first bungaloNd was not like the black hole
of Calcutta, or the hold of a slave ship. Captain Day,
with his wife and children and a staff of servants, occupied
similar quarters for several months. The counterpart of
tho bungalow is now the female hospital for the 6th Dra-
goons. Sergeant Major Lilley was removed to the second
bungalow on or about the 12th of May,
1862. The second bungalow was similar to
those occupied by the married men in the 6th
Dragoons, but it had on that point an advantage over many
of them, being at the end of a range of barracks, and had
therefore a verandah on two sides of the room instead of on
one, which the central barrack quarters had not. The
second bungalow is constructed on the same scale as the
other model, and represents a portion of a long range of
bat racks at Mhow, in which thejnniskilling Dragoons have
quarters. On the south side is a glass door and two glass
windows leading into a room 23 feet by 14. The only other
outlet to that floor leads into a smaller room on the east side
7 feet by 14, out of which room is a doorway leading into the
east verandah. Those two rooms were roofed by double
tiles, with a ventilator, and the verandah is roofed with
single tiles. The height of the walls on the south side was
about 121 feet, and of the north wall about 18 feet. The
walls are masonry. Beyond the north wall is a passage
about 6 feet wide, and beyond that again are quarters not
represented on the model, but which aro shown on the plan.
The bungalow which I have just described is the
ono in which Sergeant Major Lilley died. The
verandah on the south and east side is fifteen
feet wide, there being a communication right through,
and into which verandah the glass doors open. I believe
Sergeant Major Lilley had access to the room and verandah
during the latter part of his confinement in the second
bungalow, but I never visited him. When I was there
similar quarters were occupied by soldiers and sergeants.
The second bungalow was not bomb proof. There was
a ceiling cloth to the roof about the height of 12/ feet from
the ground. The object being to keep the dust from thera
roof from falling into the apartment, and to make the hole
more comfortable in. appearance. The building was not
unfit for human habitation. It has not been pulled down.
He was one of the staff sergeants of the regiment.
large room, when he saw it, contained the sergeant's wife's The
bed, and other articles of furniture. The same ceiling cloth
which was on the room when Lilley died was there. There
was a pan of charcoal in the room which acted as a stove.
He did not recollect that there was a chink between the
inner and the outer room. it c
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the apartment. It was customary to line these chinks with
coloured calico, which completely obstructed the vision.
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There was no curtain retched across the apartment when
he inspected the sittina•
been room.
The curtain represented in
the model had described to him by witnesses as having
been hung up
in
Lilley lived there the apartment when Sergeant Major
He did not consider the second buega-
low more
prejudicial to the health of persons occupying it
than any other quarter. Ile recollected the first bungalow
being pulled down. He knew that a correspondence took
place between Colonel Crawley and the authorities with
regard to Lilley's quarters. He brought it home from
India and handed it to the Adjutant-General of the Forces.
Colonel Crawley said he now asked the prosecutor to
produce the correspondence, or to allow a witness to verify
the copies which he had in his possession.
The Fresident—What is the object of the application
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Lilley's quarters were taken away froni h, p
him as good, or better quarters than he
beenhadposses-
sion of, I gave official notice for the production of that
correspondence some time since.
Sir A. Horsford said that the prosecution would prove
the case in the regular manner, using such evidence as
might be thought necessary. No objection would be made
to the prisoner putting in the documents in his own defence.
He (Sir A. lioraford):said he could not tell at present whe-
ther they were in his possession, but the prisoner might
obtain them on application to the Adjutant General.
Colonel Crawley said he had to appeal to the protection

of the Court in this matter. The prosecution had opened e
else, of gross cruelty against him, part of which consisted
in'placing Sergeant Major Lilley in the room in which he
died, The documents for which he asked would entirely
disprove the case of the prosecution. The authorities had
these documents in their possession, and ought to produce
them. He had copies with them, and the witness could
verify them,

The President said he hardly thought they should be
called for at this stage,but the court would retire to consi-
der rho question.
SirOn A.
return of the court,
ad.llorsford said that he had taken
advantage of the
Journment of the court to inquire whether the documents
in question were in the hands of the prosecution, and he
had found that they were. Under those circumstances
he
had no objection to produce them, but upon the clear under-
standing that he did not
Ipille.od ace them as evidence for the
prosecution, but that if t
must be considered evidence for
produced them they
s)s ination
thatthe it defence.
would
The President was of opinion x
to produce them during a o
Colonel Crawley was advised thatam the .
be irregular
documents pro-
duced would have the same effect whetheref brought forward
as evidence for the prosecution or the
defence.
The Court considered that it was for the pr,oi
Crawleys prisoner
d o.
determine what course to take with them.
After consultation with his legal advisers
Col
accepted the offer, and took the documents as part f
fence. The correspondence had taken place betweenla
self (Colonel Crawley) and the Brigade Major, at Aihall,tvini-
The documents were then produced and identified•y
Major Champion, as those he brought home from lndia
They were read, and it appeared that a representation
had been made from the Major General of Brigade that
the quarters occupied by the Sergeant Major 'Alley and
the Quartermaster of the 6th Dragoons would be required
as new cavalry barracks were to be erected, and that Col.
Crawley then pointed out other buildings which might be
given over to his regiment (the Inniskilling Dragoons).