§ LORD ASHLEYsaid, he wished to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether his attention has been directed to a Letter, signed E.G., which appeared in The Times of Thursday last, complaining that on the 20th of March four persons, dressed in the uniform of a Rifle Corps, while practising on Wandsworth Common, aimed at and shot the favourite dog of the writer's sister, immediately upon which fatal catastrophe they all ran away; and, whether it would not be advisable to authorize the Police to put a stop to sharp-shooting upon public footpaths?
SIR GEORGE LEWISsaid, he understood that the North Surrey Rifle Volunteers had been upon the day in question drilling in that neighbourhood, and that four men in their uniform were seen near the spot where the dog was killed, but that the Police could not discover who 1496 was the person who had fired the shot. He understood that no sharp-shooting had taken place near the footpath.