HC Deb 03 September 1895 vol 36 c1565
LORD HUGH CECIL (Greenwich)

I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether he will consider the propriety of taking steps to cause a public inquiry to be held into the case of Mrs. Maybrick, such inquiry to be presided over by a Judge of the High Court, and conducted under judicial forms.

SIR MATTHEW RIDLEY

As I have already stated, I am about to give full and impartial consideration to the case of Mrs. Maybrick; but I have no power to order such an inquiry as is suggested.