§ MR. TREVELYANasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether the Government is prepared to prosecute the constable Macconachie, who is under suspicion of having killed a man who refused to give up a gun and bag which he was carrying on a high road near Galashiels; and, whether it is true, as alleged, that the constable in question was still at large some days after the fatal occurrence?
MR. ASSHETON CROSS, in reply, said, that the circumstances of the case referred to had been inquired into by the Procurator Fiscal of Roxburgshire, the county in which it occurred, and he had reported to the Town Council of Edinburgh. The Town Council had ordered a most searching investigation into the case with the view to its being prosecuted in the most thorough manner. It was true that the police constable referred to had not been in custody, but he understood from the Lord Advocate that he would at once be placed in charge of the sheriff.