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¡ "Cat" at Cardiff. STATEMENT BY HOME SECRETARY. In the House of Commons on Monday, MacNeill (Nat.) asked the Home how many convicts at the recent Assizes at Cardiff were „ sentenced to the Punishment of flogging, what was the total dumber of lashes inflicted, and what was the test number of lashes inflicted on one individual whether any and, if so, which of toe cases in which at these Assizes prisoners re sentenced to be flogged were considered hy the Home Secretary with a view to the re- tnlsslon or reduction of the penalty of the lash J^hether the fact that these sentences of flogging had been passed came to his know- ledge before the floggings were inflicted and, if so, what steps, if any, did he take, having regard to the mOTal degradation produced and Pfin inflicted by such punishment, to satisfy himself of its absolute necessity in the interests of justice and for the preservation of social order. Mr Gladstone replied Fourteen men were convicted of robbery with violence at the decent Assizes at Cardiff, and 82nteJ;lced to corporal punishment in addition to terms of Penal servitude or imprisonment. The corporal punishment was 12 strokes with the cat in 10 of the cases, 15 strokes in three, and six strokes in one. Some of these cases were brought to his notice by the hon. member at the time, and he obtained particulars of the Punishments ordered, but, as he then informed the hon; member, the sentences were passed hy humane and careful judges, and he saw no reason for interference. Three of the men Petitioned, and their petitions were considered before the infliction of the punishment, but they disclosed no grounds for interference. An Outbreak of these crimes of robbery with Jtolence had recently taken place at Cardiff. The records of all the prisoners showed that all out two of them had been previously con- victed, several of them many times, and that Ordinary sentences of imprisonment had failed check their criminal tendencies. Mr D. Maclean (L., Bath) asked whether it Was not a fact that crimes of violence had practically disappeared from Cardiff since the exposition of these floggings. Mr Gladstone I believe that is so.

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