§ MR. VINCENT SCULLYsaid, he wished to ask the Chief Secretary for Ire- 1359 land, Whether he has received any official information to the effect that the recent Murder in the county of Tipperary was committed about 3 p.m. at a most open spot on the public high road, within two and a half miles of the Police Station at New Inn, and three and a half miles of those at Cashel and Golden respectively, and that its commission was not known to the Police at New Inn until 7 p.m., at Cashel until 8 p.m., or at Golden until the following morning?
§ SIR ROBERT PEELsaid, he had no doubt the hon. Member was correct as to the exact distance of the Police Stations from the spot where this foul and cowardly murder was committed. He was able to state that three persons supposed to be implicated in the crime had been arrested, and one of them committed on the charge of murder and sent to the gaol of Clonmel. He was glad to have that opportunity of bearing his testimony to the energy and activity of the constabulary and of the sub-inspector in effecting so speedy an arrest.
§ MR. VINCENT SCULLYsaid, he wished to know whether it was only at the hours he had named that the police first heard of the crime?
§ SIR ROBERT PEELsaid, the suspected persons were arrested on the night succeeding the murder, within a few hours after its commission.
LORD NAASsaid, he wished to ask the Chief Secretary for Ireland, Whether it is the intention of the Government to issue a Special Commission to try the perpetrators of the late murders in the county of Tipperary?
§ SIR ROBERT PEELwas understood to reply that whatever steps were found necessary to render the accused persons duly amenable to justice would be taken.