§ MR. CUNINGHAME GRAHAM (Lanark, N.W.)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department why the convict Charles Richardson, who has served ten years, is still detained, though George Egdell, convicted for the same crime, was released?
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT (Mr. MATTHEWS, Birmingham, E.)Egdell and Richardson were each sentenced to five years' penal servitude, not ten as 1644 stated in the question, in November, 1888. Egdell was released on licence this month, six months before the ordinary time for licence, on the ground of his age, and because he was the first to make voluntary confession of a crime of which two other men had been convicted. Richardson will be due for licence in August next, if he has been of good conduct while in prison.