HC Deb 25 February 1870 vol 199 c806
MR. NEWDEGATE

said, he would beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether a prisoner named Atkins, confined in Warwick Gaol on conviction of a serious offence, had been recently liberated?

MR. BRUCE

, in reply, said, he was not aware of the fact. He knew that the sentence of imprisonment had been commuted to one year, and he was not able to say whether that period had elapsed or not.