§ MR. BLACK (Bedfordshire, Biggleswade)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if his attention has been called to the case of William Tutt, who was arrested while on a visit to his mother, aged eighty-three, at Lidlington, Bedfordshire, on Tuesday, 28th May, and committed to prison at Bedford for three months on a warrant, dated 1st November, 1894, for shooting a hare on the Duke of Bedford's estate at Lidlington on 21st October, 1894; and whether, in view of the fact that this man has borne a good character in Lancashire during the whole of the intervening twelve and a half years, and that he has already been in prison eight 674 days, he can see his way to order Tutt's immediate release.
§ MR. GLADSTONEI am not yet sufficiently in possession of the facts of this case to come to a decision with regard to it, but I will communicate further with my hon. friend as soon as I can.