HC Deb 21 July 1885 vol 299 cc1403-4
MR. PICTON

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether his attention has been called to a case brought before the Bow Street Police Court, on Saturday the 18th July, in which a complaint was made of the abduction and seduction of a girl alleged to have been, at the time of the offence, under twelve years of age; whether the complainant is the stepmother, and the father dead; and, whether, having regard to the peculiar circumstances of the case, the Public Prosecutor will take the matter up?

THE SECRETARY or STATE FOB THE HOME DEPARTMENT (Sir R. ASSHETON CROSS),

in reply, said, the Treasury Solicitor would watch the case. He had received a letter shortly after the meeting of the House purporting to be from the brother-in-law of the girl alleged to have been abducted, in which a denial was given to most of the statements made in the paragraph.