§ 21. Mr. GINNELLasked the Attorney-General whether the Director of Public Prosecutions is aware that Francis Richard Shackleton, now in custody on a criminal charge, had access to the room in Dublin Castle in which the Crown jewels were kept at the time those jewels were Stolen in 1907, and has since boasted that he would not be prosecuted because of other persons whom a conviction of him 10 would involve; that the said theft has never been made the subject of a public investigation by a Court of Criminal Juris-diction; whether the reason that has prevented this being done will now prevent a full examination of Shackleton's career; and, if the reason be not that alleged by Shackleton, will he say what it is?
§ The ATTORNEY-GENERAL (Sir Rufus Isaacs)Mr. Shackleton has been arrested and is now awaiting his extradition for a criminal offence, and whilst his case is sub judice it would not be right in my opinion that any public statement should be made which might hereafter be considered to be prejudicial to his interests.