Report from Captain P. G. Scot compiled from the statements of 'three natives who were in Jhansie at the time'. Quoted from Forrest, no date is given but presumably shortly after the massacre.

Some days before it occurred, Captain Dunlop commanding the left wing of the 18th Native Infantry, and the station of Jhansie too, sent over to Major Kirke letters from Major Skene, the Superintendent, and Captain Gordon, Deputy Superintendent of Jhansie, informing him that they had learnt from separate sources that one Luckmun Rao, the servant of the Ranee of Jhansie, was doing his best to induce the men of the 18th to mutiny. It was not known whether the Ranee authorised these proceedings. Subsequent letters from the same authority informed Captain Dunlop that spies or agents of sedition found great difficulty on entering his lines. Captain Dunlop, I believe, had not time to send more. He never seemed to think that there was any danger to be apprehended from the 14th Irregulars. At Nowgong and Jhansie, they let the infantry begin the mutiny. I believe the reason was solely that they wished to conceal the character of the movement, viz., its being a Mahomedan one. They were the most blood-thirsty when the mutiny did break out.

I have learned the following particulars from three natives who were at Jhansie at the time of the mutiny. One of them was in the fort, of the city of Jhansie with the party who defended it. The three told their tales separately at Nowgong, Muhoba, and Banda; and as they agree very nearly, I think the information is correct.

Only the 7th company, 18th Native Infantry, mutinied on the 4th of June, It marched into the Star Fort headed by a havildar, Goorbuccus, a very likely man. Captain Dunlop paraded the rest of the 12th and the cavalry, and they said they would stand by him. Next day, June 6th, he was busy at the quarter-guard of the 18th, preparing shells (a thing he was likely to do). He was returning from the post office where he had posted some letters, and was on or near the 12th Native Infantry parade, when men of the 18th attacked and killed him and Ensign Taylor.

I hope I may be permitted to mention here that Lieutenant Ewart who passed through Cawnpore in the end of May on his way to Nowgong, to join the 12th, was personally told by General Sir H. M. Wheeler to tell Captain Dunlop that he had reported of him to the Adjutant General, that he was a man for the present crisis.

The sowars there severely wounded with pistols or carbines Lieutenant Campbell of the 15th Native Infantry, the only officer present with the 14th Irregulars. He escaped to the city fort pursued by sowars, some of whom were wounded by the officers inside it. Lieutenant Turnbull of the artillery employed in the revenue survey failed to reach the fort. I suppose he was on foot; he took refuge in a tree, he was seen to climb it, and was shot down. Lieutenant Burgess of the revenue survey department and some ot his English and Eurasian subordinates had been living for sometime in the city fort. On the evening of the 4th of June he was joined by Major Skene, his wife (and I believe two children); Captain Gordon, Madras Native Infantry; Dr. McEgan, 12th Native Infantry, and his wife; Lieutenant Powys, 6th Native Infantry, canal department, and his wife and child; two ladies from Orai, relatives or guests to Captain Browne; and the English and Eurasian employees in the civil and canal department and salt excise. They employed their time until they were attacked on the 7th in getting provisions and ammunition, and fire-arms into the fort; they piled stones behind the gates to prevent their being opened. They appear to have made great havoc among the assailants with rifles and guns, only one of their number being killed by those outside Captain Gordon; he was shot through the head when he exposed himself at the parapet. A native who was in the fort said he was kneeling over pulling up a bucket, some syce in the lower inclosure had filled with wheat. A native who was in the city at the time said he was firing at the assailants, but both agreed that he (Captain Gordon) was shot in the head when exposing himself at the parapet; they all agreed that Lieutenant Powys was killed by Mussulmans inside the fort. The native who was inside the fort says that Lieutenant Powys was found by Captain Burgess and others lying bleeding from a wound in the neck, and was able to say that four men beside him had attacked him; the four were immediately put to death, one was a ressaldar (?) moonshee, another a jemadar, and two chaprassis: all four were employed in the revenue survey; the informant who was in the city said that Lieutenant Powys saw a khitmutgar of Captain Burgess attempt to pull down the stones that closed the fort gates and shot him, that this man's brother cut Lieutenant Powys down with his tulwar, and was instantly shot down by Lieutenant Burgess.

The party at last were induced to open the gates relying on the most solemn promises made to Major Skene that the lives of all would be spared; they all walked out save Lieutenant Powys who was alive, but unable to move; his wife was torn from him, and, with the rest of the Christians, was beheaded in a garden near or in the city. Women and children were alike killed; the men are said to have pleaded hard for the lives of these last, The informant who was inside the fortress says that quarter master Sergeant John Newton, of the 12th Native Infantry, and his wife and four little children were alone spared, and taken with the rebels when they left Jhansie; he was a dark East Indian; he was received in September or October last from 3rd Europeans.

The Ranee's troops joined in the attack, so I believe did the men of the salt excise. A Mr. Stewart of that department made his way from near Jhansi: disguised as a Hindoo; he joined our party on the 14th June, and at Kubrai he disappeared preferring to make his way alone as a native; his colour and knowledge of the language made this somewhat easy. I regret to say I have not since heard of him; he left us in the dark of evening without a word; he stated that in consequence of the mutiny he had received orders to come to Jhansie fort with all his men, and had move along the salt boundary towards Jhansie, collecting his men as he went; but finding they mutinied, he had to flee for his life; he was told ere he fled that the heads of some murdered officers were being carried about the villages around Jhansie, and were then being exhibited in a village he was close by.

Lieutenant Ryves was in command with the only native officer, Jemadar Lall Mahomed; and sixty men of the left wing, 12th Native Infantry, and forty sowars of the 14th Irregulars. I was told at Muhoba, by a man from Jhansie, that Lieutenant Ryves had been seen riding towards Lullutpore. I have no doubt that he escaped.

In conclusion I beg to say that this report is made from memory; I had no documents or papers to refer to. All books, papers, etc., that we left at our quarters at Nowgong must have perished in the flames; no trace of them was to be seen when I visited cantonments on the 12th and 13th June, and I think I can safely state that no records of the 12th Regiment, Native Infantry, exist safe, save such papers as have been forwarded to the brigade, and other offices. Descriptive rolls of many of the mutineers must exist in the collector's office. Of the young men of four or five years service or less, only three, I think, joined the officers after the mutiny broke out.