*CAPTAIN FABER (Hampshire, Andover)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he is aware that on Friday, 12th April, a soldier, by name Joseph Latham, on furlough from India, was arrested in Birmingham for handing two papers to a man, who was not a bookmaker but a greengrocer, and that this soldier was marched through the streets between two policemen, although he was in His Majesty's uniform; and will he state what reparation has been made, considering that the stipendiary dismissed the case.
§ MR. GLADSTONEI am informed that Latham was found giving two packets containing money and names of horses to a well-known bookmaker whom the police were watching for the purpose of taking proceedings under the Street Betting Act of last session, and that he was thereupon arrested and charged tinder the Act. He was not in uniform at the time. The magistrate dismissed the charge on the ground that Latham was possibly an innocent agent. I see no reason to think that he has any claim to compensation.