§ MR. LABOUCHEREasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether it is contemplated to give any indemnity to the two men, Joseph and Charles Dickson, who were respectively sentenced last November, at Bishops Stortford, to five years' penal servitude, and to eighteen months' hard labour, for an aggravated assault, on the evidence of a policeman, and who now have been released; and, whether it is intended to take any steps against the policeman?
§ SIR WILLIAM HARCOURT,in reply, said, that he had carefully examined into the circumstances of this case, and had come to the conclusion that they did not justify the steps indicated in his Question by the hon. Member being taken. It was simply a case of mistaken identity.