§ MR. CONYBEARE (Cornwall, Camborne)asked Mr. Attorney General, Whether his attention has been drawn to the paragraph in The Pall Mall Gazette of Thursday, describing "an outrage of a peculiarly cruel and dastardly nature" in form of a false and unsigned telegram being sent to a certain person, who was nearly killed by the shock it caused him; whether it is the fact, as therein stated, that the—
Author of this abominable outrage is known but will probably escape punishment, as the Post Office declines to take up the matter, and the Public Prosecutor has so far paid no attention to the representations made to him;and, whether he proposes to take any and what stops in the matter to further the ends of justice?
§ THE ATTORNEY GENERAL (Sir RICHARD WEBSTER) (Isle of Wight), in reply, said, that the facts, as stated in the Question, did not disclose any case upon which the Public Prosecutor could take action. The recipient of the telegram referred to had made no complaint either to the Director of Telegraphs or to the Public Prosecutor.