§ SIR JOHN KENNAWAY (Devon, Honiton)asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether he can now state the decision at which he has arrived in regard to the case of Henry Hart, sentenced at the Devon Quarter Sessions held in February, to two months' imprisonment, with hard labour, for stealing coal, the property of his employer, with respect to which sentence a largely signed Petition has been forwarded to the Home Office by residents in the locality, asking on various grounds for a remission of a portion of the sentence?
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE (Mr. MATTHEWS) (Birmingham, E.)I have carefully considered the case of Hart, sentenced at Devon Sessions, and I regret that I am unable to advise any interference with the sentence, which appears to have been most carefully considered by the magistrates in consultation upon all the circumstances of the case.