§ MR. SUMMERBELL (Sunderland)To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he is aware that three women were arrested outside the Premier's official residence on Friday morning last, taken publicly through the streets to the police station, and that, after being detained there some time, were ultimately discharged without any charge being made against them; and whether he will explain why, after being locked up, no charge was preferred against them.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Gladstone.) Three women were apprehended for disorderly conduct outside the Prime 1086 Minister's official residence on Friday morning last. The action of the police was proper, and the women were only released on the personal intercession of my right hon. friend the Prime Minister.