§ MR. RADFORD (Islington, E.)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether his attention has been called to the case of John Thomas Barlow, who was sentenced by Mr. Bros at the Clerkenwell Police Court on 29th July to one month's imprisonment on a charge of assaulting Police Constable Morgan; and whether he will cause inquiry to be made into the facts of the case, particularly with regard to the prisoner's statement that he was assaulted and given a black eye by a police officer in the cells at the police station between the time of his being charged there and his being bailed out shortly after, and the prisoner's further statement that the officer assaulting him was remonstrated with by another officer for this act of violence.
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT (Mr. GLADSTONE, Leeds, W.)My attention had not previously been called to this case, but I find on inquiry that the prisoner's allegation that he was assaulted by a police officer in the police station was made to the magistrate who tried the case, and was investigated by him, and that he found it was not substantiated. No further investigation appears to me to be necessary.