Mr. FENWICK (for Mr. Bottomley)asked the Home Secretary whether his attention has been called to the sentence of five years' detention in a reformatory recently passed by Mr. Rose, the stipendiary at the Tower Bridge police court, upon a girl 14 years of age for stealing the sum of £3 10s. from a coffee-shop in which she was 2298 employed; whether there had been any previous conviction against the girl; and, if not, whether he proposes to advise a mitigation of the sentence?
§ Mr. GLADSTONEI have made inquiry into this case, and am not prepared to interfere with the order of the court. There had been no previous conviction against the girl, but it is clear, in view of her character and history, that it is in her interest that she should remain in the reformatory school, where she will receive the careful training which is called for in her case.