MR. PATRICK O'BRIENI beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he can give any instances of a public executioner having been required by a coroner's request, summons, or warrant, to give evidence to satisfy the law and the public that an execution was properly carried out within a prison in Great Britain; and whether he can state any instances in which the executioner attended and gave evidence, and any instance in which he refused to attend on the coroner's summons or warrant.
§ *MR. RITCHIESo far as I have been able to investigate the matter, I am not aware of any instances of the nature referred to in the question.