§ MR. MURPHY (Kerry, E.)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he is aware that during the year 1905 there were in the East Riding of York seventy-eight habitual criminals at large, thirty persons under police protection, 1,718 indictable crimes known to the police, two cases of murder, five cases of arson, three cases of felonious wounding, one case of unnatural offence, two cases of indecency with males, two cases of indecent assault on females, five cases of defilement of girls under thirteen, three cases of defilement of girls under sixteen, and 161 cases of malicious damage; and what steps he intends to take to remedy this state of affairs.
§ MR. GLADSTONEThe figures given by the hon. Member correspond closely to those in the Criminal Statistics for 1905, though there are one or two errors of detail. Most of the crime mentioned arises in the seaport of Hull—there is very little in the remainder of the Riding. I have every confidence that the police are well able to deal with the matter.
§ [No Answer was returned.]