HC Deb 17 December 1888 vol 332 c450
MR. PICKERSGILL (Bethnal Green, S.W.)

asked the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies, Whether the flogging which formed part of the sentence pronounced on Thomas Taylor for contempt of Court by the Chief Justice of the Bahamas, on July 31 last, was actually inflicted?

THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE (Baron HENRY DE WORMS) (Liverpool, East Toxteth)

, in reply, said, it had not been possible to receive an answer to the inquiry addressed to the Governor on this subject.