§ SIR GILBERT PARKER (Gravesend)On behalf of the hon. Member for Stepney, I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether his attention has been called to the observations of the magistrate at the Thames Police Court in the case of a woman named Sarah Rosenbaum, who had been previously imprisoned for soliciting, and ordered to be deported at the end of her sentence; and whether he can state why this woman was not deported in accordance with the recommendation of the police court.
§ MR. FELL (Great Yarmouth)I beg also to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he is aware that a Polish woman, named Rosenbaum, had been charged before Mr. Dickinson the magistrate who had issued a certificate recommending that she should be deported; that such woman was not deported, and at a later date came before the same magistrate again on a further charge; and what steps he proposes to take to carry out the provisions of the Aliens Act in this respect.
§ MR. HILLS (Durham)May I also, ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether his attention has been called to the case of a Russian Pole, Sarah Rosenbaum, who was tried at the Thames Police Court on 2nd June for stealing; whether she had been previously convicted, of soliciting and 701 ordered by the magistrate to be deported; and whether this sentence was carried out.
§ *THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT (Mr. GLADSTONE,) Leeds, W.I received from the magistrate sitting at the Thames Police Court on February 23rd a certificate recommending the expulsion of the girl Rosenbaum, a Polish Jewess, whom he had that day convicted of soliciting prostitution and sentenced to a fine of 20s. or ten days imprisonment. The fine was paid, but the girl was detained in prison for some days pending enquiry. On the information before me, and having regard to the fact that this was the girl's first offence, I considered that expulsion in addition to the fine and several days imprisonment would amount to too severe a punishment. In the discretion vested in me by the Act I did not make an Expulsion Order; but I caused the girl to be warned, and the magistrate to be informed, that if she brought herself for a second time within the provisions of the Act, she could not expect such leniency.
§ SIR W. EVANS GORDON (Tower Hamlets, Stepney)Will the original sentence of expulsion now hold good?
§ *MR. GLADSTONEThat depends upon the magistrate.