§ MR. BIDDULPH (Herefordshire, Ross)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether his attention has been called to the case of Charles Preedy, who was convicted at the Spring Assizes of 1892 of maliciously maiming three cows and one bullock which had strayed on to his land, and sentenced to seven years' penal servitude, subsequently reduced to live years by the late Home Secretary; and whether, in view of recent remissions of sentences in Ireland where loss of life was involved, he will consider the case of Charles Preedy in the light of the clemency applied in the cases referred to?
THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT (Mr. ASQCITH,) Fife, E.I have considered this case on its own merits, and without reference to irrelevant precedents in Ireland or elsewhere. I see no ground for any further reduction of the sentence.