HC Deb 10 February 1908 vol 183 cc1412-3
MR. MOONEY (Newry)

I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he is aware that during the year 1905 there were reported to the police 1,218 indictable crimes in the county of Lincoln, including two attempts to murder, one threat or conspiracy to murder, two cases of manslaughter, twelve cases of malicious wounding, two cases of unnatural offences, one case of indecency with males, two cases of rape, nine cases of indecent assault on females, ten cases of defilement of girls under sixteen, seven cases of larceny of horses and cattle, fourteen cases of arson, three cases of killing and maiming of cattle; if he can now state when the figures for 1906 will be available; if he can state how many of these crimes were committed in the Stamford division of the county; and if he can now state whether there is any diminution of these classes of crime in this county or in the parishes comprising the Stamford division of the county.

MR. GLADSTONE

The figures given by the hon. Member correspond closely with those in the Criminal Statistics for 1905. The figures for 1906 will be available in two or three weeks. They show a slight diminution in some of the classes of crime specified. I have no information as to how many of the crimes were committed in the Stamford Division.

MR. MOONEY

How is it the right hon. Gentleman can get the latest possible figures for Ireland and not for England? Is the Irish Office a branch of the Home Office?

MR. GLADSTONE

said there was a time when the Irish Office was practically under the Homo Office. He wished the calendar of crime in England were as light as it was in Ireland.

MR. WILLIAM REDMOND (Clare, E.)

Will the right hon. Gentleman send a copy of his Answer as to the appalling state of affairs in Lincolnshire to the hon. Member for the Stamford Division, who is so much interested in crime in the county of Clare.

MR. MACVEAGH (Down, S.)

asked the right hon. Gentleman if his attention had been called to the fact that in the Stamford Division in 1905 thirty-eight persons committed suicide in a state of insanity, and whether, as the electors there had given other evidence of insanity, he would communicate with the Commissioners of Lunacy in order to have this serious matter attended to.

MR. T. L. CORBETT (Down, N)

Would it not be well for the country if an equal number of persons in Clare committed suicide?

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