§ DR. FITZGERALD (Longford, S.)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Homo Department if his attention has been called to the seizure of Mrs. Mary Cathcart, of Wootton Hall, Stafford; if he will disclose the name of the Magistrate who with Drs. Bond and Savage are alleged to have signed a certificate for her confinement in a private lunatic asylum; if he will state when and where the doctors examined Mrs. Cathcart; and if he will call upon the Lunacy Commissions to disclose the name of the person or persons by whose authority they made such examination and signed such certificate?
§ MR. MATTHEWSI am informed by the Lunacy Commissioners that no Magistrate signed a certificate in this case; but Mr. Pennington, a Justice for London, appointed under the Lunacy Act, 1890, made an order on February 28 for the confinement in the Priory, a private asylum, upon certificates signed by Drs. Bond and Savage, who examined the lady at the asylum on the 25th inst., by authority of her husband, 434 under whose urgency order she had been taken there on the 24th inst.