§ MR. PICKERSGILL (Bethnal Green, S.W.)asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether each of the prisoners who were sentenced to be flogged at Liverpool Assizes on Monday last had inflicted bodily harm upon any person; and, if so, what was the nature of the injury done in each case?
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE (Mr. MATTHEWS) (Birmingham, E.)I understand that these men were found guilty of robbery with violence. According to a newspaper report of the proceedings, the Judge remarked that they might 541 have been tried for inflicting grievous bodily harm. In one case the man attacked had two or three ribs broken; and in another the prosecutor's head was cut, and he was struck in the mouth. In each of the other three cases there was a violent assault committed, in one upon a woman, and in another cuts were inflicted with a knife.