§ MR. MADDISON (Sheffield, Brightside)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether his attention has been called to the sentence of one month's imprisonment passed an a man named Isaac Doughty at the Bilston Town Hall last Friday, who was charged with vagrancy, his particular offence being that of sleeping on the steps of the Town Hall; and whether he will inquire into all the circumstances of the case, with a view to the remission or reduction of the sentence?
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENTI have made inquiry into the circumstances of this case. The man bad been 30 times previously convicted of various offences, being drunk and disorderly, assaulting the police, and the like; and five times during the present year. It does not seem to me to be a case in which intervention is desirable.