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“Inquiry into the ‘Jason’ Case” – Correspondence presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command – 1873

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This detailed inquiry considers the facts of the 'Jason' case.

Capt. John William Coath, master of the Jason was convicted of kidnapping nine men a short distance from the island of Api and removing them to Maryborough, Queensland, taking them by force out of a canoe, which was afterword hauled aboard the boat and destroyed.

The inquiry results from a petition put forward by 390 men for the remission of Capt. Coath's sentence, five years imprisonment in Brisbane Gaol. The petition consists of correspondence and testimony under the Oath's Act 1867 from crewmen and from two of the alleged kidnapping victims.

Price: $60.00

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