MR. LLOYD MORGAN (Carmarthenshire, W.)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether, in the Returns presented to the House of all sentences of corporeal punishment inflicted upon prisoners between the 1st of January and the 31st December, 1904 and 1905 respectively, the number of strokes ordered by the respective Judges were in fact inflicted; whether there were any cases during the said period in which the whole or any part of the sentence was remitted or was not imposed; and, if so, whether he will give 1565 the number, and state the details of such cases mentioned in the Returns.
§ MR. GLADSTONEIn all, except one, of the cases mentioned in the two Returns relating to indictable offences the number of strokes ordered by the Judge were inflicted. The one exception was in the case of J. F., convicted at the Central Criminal Court on 28th July, 1904, and ordered to receive six strokes. In this case the prisoner was found to be medically unfit.