§ MR. STEWART MACLIVERasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, If his attention has been called to the ease of Thomas Jones, a convict tried at Exeter and sentenced to 15 years' penal servitude, for assaulting a warder at Dartmoor; whether he will direct an inquiry into the conduct of the deputy governor which was censured by Baron Huddleston; whether, pending the inquiry, he would remove the convict to another prison; and, whether an examination into the mental condition of the convict will be made?
§ SIR WILLIAM HARCOURT,in reply, said, that this matter had been carefully investigated; and he had directed an inquiry into the conduct of the Deputy Governor which had been censured by Mr. Baron Huddleston. The convict had been removed to another prison, and a medical inquiry into his mental condition had been made. It had been found that, although there was no absolute insanity, the man was of a low type.