MR. OWEN LEWISasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, If his attention has been called to the trial of John William Moss and Mary Ellen Calder for manslaughter, at the Durham Assizes on the 24th February; and, whether he intends to take any steps with reference to the conduct of the police and of the parish doctor, on whose culpable neglect Lord Chief Justice Coleridge so severely commented?
MR. ASSHETON CROSSI have received a letter from Lord Chief Justice Coleridge, explaining the circumstances of the case. I thought it my duty to call the attention of my right hon. Friend the President of the Local Government Board to the subject, in order that he might make every possible 1583 inquiry, so far as the doctor is concerned, and I myself have directed a full investigation to be made with respect to the conduct of the police.