HC Deb 06 December 1888 vol 331 cc1253-4
MR. CONYBEARE (Cornwall, Camborne)

, who had the following Question on the Paper:—To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether it is the fact that a certain Charles Bertram was adjudged a bankrupt by the County Court Judge Giffard, under the following circumstances:—That he took a house at Torpoint, fitted it up with furniture for which he never paid, and was afterwards arrested with goods in his possession which did not belong to him; whether, after his arrest, as an absconding debtor, he was subsequently committed to prison for contempt of Court in not filing proper accounts when ordered to do so by the Court; whether, on October 16, an order for his release was made by the late Judge Giffard, in spite of an application to suspend the granting of such order for release, for the purpose of communicating with the Board of Trade, and because a prosecution was intended; whether the Judge refused to suspend the order, stating, as his reason, that he had received a communication from him requesting the release of Bertram; and, whether he made any such communication to the Judge, and on what grounds?—complained that the Notice he had given of the Question had been emasculated.

MR. SPEAKER

Order, order!

MR. CONYBEAEE

I wish to explain—

MR. SPEAKER

Order, order! Put the Question.

MR. CONYBEARE

I decline to do so.