§ MR. JUSTIN M'CARTHYasked Mr. Attorney General for Ireland, If it is the fact that, at an investigation held in Clonmel Gaol on Friday, before Colonel Carew, R.M., and other magistrates, in the case of "Captain Moonlight," the representative of the "Tipperary" newspaper was refused admittance, the magistrates stating that they would only allow the representative of another journal, an advocate of the cause of the landlords, to be present during the proceedings?
§ THE ATTORNEY GENERAL FOR IRELAND (Mr. W. M. JOHNSON)I am informed that at an investigation held on Friday in Clonmel Gaol into the case of five persons charged with offences termed in this Question "Captain Moonlight," the resident magistrate was given to understand that reporters from various newspapers published in Ireland proposed being present. Having ascertaiend that there was one newspaper—The Clonmel Chronicle—published in Clonmel, and that its reporter was in the room, the magistrate announced that the only Clonmel journal was repre- 1104 sented; but that if any other newspaper had happened to be published in the town the same indulgence would have been extended to its representative. The prisoners were defended by three solicitors. I am not aware whether the Clonmel paper is or is not an advocate of what is stated in the Question to be "the cause of the landlords;" but whether that is so or not it had nothing to say to the matter.