Mr. MONTAGUE BARLOWasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he is aware that a youth named Ernest Williams, resident in Sal ford, was convicted of throwing a stone at, a policeman in connection with the recent strike, and was punished in the Salford police court with six weeks hard labour; whether he is aware that the boy comes of respectable parents, and has hitherto borne a good character; and whether, in view of all the circumstances of the case, and of the fact that this is his first offence, he can see his way to recommending a mitigation of the sentence?
§ Mr. CHURCHILLI have made inquiry in the case, and regret that I have found no sufficient ground for recommending any reduction of the sentence on this prisoner, who took an active part in an attack with stones on the police.