§ MR. MOONEYI beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what was the number of indictable offences in the county of Wiltshire for the years 1902, 1903, 1904, 1905, 1906, and the months of January and February 1907, under the following heads: murder, attempt of murder, threats or conspiracy to murder, malicious wounding, indecent assualt on females, defilement of girls under thirteen, arson, killing and maiming cattle, malicious damage, stealing animals, trees, fruit, etc.
§ MR. GLADSTONEThe hon. Member will find the figures he requires for the years 1901 to 1905 in the Annual Volumes of Criminal Statistics, Tables XXIII and XXIV.
§ MR. MOONEYWhat are the figures for January and February this year?
§ MR. GLADSTONEI have not got them.
§ MR. MOONEYHow is it that when a similar Question as to Ireland is addressed to the Irish Secretary the figures 1508 are at once forthcoming, and yet they are not obtainable for England?
§ MR. GLADSTONEProbably it is due to the fact that the Returns are not made monthly in this country.