HC Deb 15 July 1898 vol 61 c1216
MR. PATRICK O'BRIEN

I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he can explain the grounds upon which Dr. Timothy S. Jones, who was convicted at Swansea in 1896 of causing the death of a woman by performing an illegal operation and sentenced to penal servitude for life, was released on the 12th instant?

THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT

The prisoner has not been released. I imagine the honourable Member has been misled by an unfounded report which appears to have been circulated by a certain agency, and has since been contradicted by them.