§ MR. PICKERSGILL (Bethnal Green, S.W.)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the case of a prisoner, Reg. No. 2,010, who was convicted on the 8th April, 1896, and sentenced to 12 calendar months' 1210 hard labour and 24 strokes with the birch rod, was received into Derby prison on the following day, was certified imbecile on the 11th April, 1896, and removed to Mickleover Asylum on the 14th April, 1896; by whom was this sentence imposed; was the corporal punishment actually inflicted; and, if so, when and where; and, if the corporal punishment was not inflicted, by whose authority and under what circumstances was it remitted?
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT (Sir M. W. RIDLEY,) Lancashire, BlackpoolThe sentence was passed by the Derbyshire Quarter Sessions. The birching was not inflicted, as he was seen on reception to be of weak intellect, and was removed immediately, as stated in the Question, to a lunatic asylum.