Page 933 - Belgrave Diaries(N)_Neat

931

1935

Various people came in to see me. The Amir & Havildar Mohammod, the latter two about cases. Went out
for a short drive. Tennis at the Agency in the afternoon, the court is so bad that it is no pleasure to play, had
one set. Looked round the garden which has very little in it.

Saturday 5th Jan

Fort, parade in the morning & then started taking evidence in the Muharraq murder case. It is interesting in a
way but very sordid, most of the witnesses are people of bad character, many of them women. I doubt if we
shall ever find the murderer. It was a case of jealousy between two gangs of men about the same woman.