§ MR. SPEAKER acquainted the House, that he had received the following Letters relating to the Imprisonment of certain Members of this House:—
245§ Castlerea, County of Roscommon,
§ 9th February, 1888.
§ Sir,
§ I beg leave to inform you that David Sheehy, Esq., a Member of the House of Commons, was tried before John T. Dillon, R.M., and Fras. B. Henn, R.M., constituted as a Court of Summary Jurisdiction, pursuant to the provisions of the Act 50 & 51 Vic. chap. 20, at French-park, on the 14th, 15th, and 16th of December last, and was convicted of the offence following:—
§ "That he on the 25th day of September 1887, at Frenchpark, in the county of Roscommon, being a proclaimed district under the provisions of ' The Criminal Law and Procedure (Ireland) Act, 1887,' did wilfully and unlawfully incite certain persons to resist and obstruct certain other persons, to wit, sheriff's bailiffs and other ministers of the Law while in the execution of their duty."
§ And that the said David Sheehy, Esq., M.P., was sentenced by said Court to imprisonment for three calendar months, and that he is at present in Her Majesty's Prison at Sligo.
§ I have the honour to be,
§ Sir,
§ Your very obedient servant,
§ JOHN T. DILLON, R.M.
§ To the Right Honourable,
§ The Speaker of the House of Commons.
§ Waterford,
§ February 11th, 1888.
§ Sir,
§ I beg leave to inform you that I have this day committed to the county Waterford Gaol Mr. J. D. Pyne, a Member of the House of Commons, upon remand to appear at Kilmac-thomas Petty Sessions on Tuesday next the 14th inst. to answer a charge of having unlawfully incited certain persons to wilfully resist and obstruct certain Sheriffs, Constables, Bailiffs, and others, Ministers of the Law, while in the execution of their duty. The charge states that the offence was committed at Schraban, in the county of Waterford, being a proclaimed district under the Criminal Law and Procedure (Ireland) Act of 1887, and on the 15th day of October, 1887. Mr. J. D. Pyne is at present in the Prison at Waterford.
§ I have the honor to be,
§ Sir,
§ Your obedient servant,
§ D. Q. BODKIN,
§ Resident Magistrate.
§ To the Right Honble.
§ The Speaker of the House of Commons.
246§ February 13th, 1888.
§ Sir,
§ It having been officially communicated to me that Mr. Jasper Douglas Pyne, and Mr. James Gilhooly, both Members of the House of Commons, have been arrested in London under Irish Warrants backed by me, I have the honour to inform you that Warrants issued by Justices for the Counties of Waterford and Cork respectively, for offences committed by those gentlemen in those respective Counties in Ireland, were presented to me at this Court on the 18th of January last for my Indorsement thereon, and that having satisfied myself, upon the oath of the officer who presented them, that the Warrants were respectively issued by the Justices whose signatures they bore, and that they exercised jurisdiction in the respective Counties in which the alleged offences wore committed, I backed the said Warrants under the provisions of the 11 and 12 Vic. c. 42, sec. 12.
§ I have the honour to be,
§ Sir,
§ Your obedient Servant,
§ J. VAUGHAN.
§ Metropolitan Police Magistrate, sitting at the Police Court,
§ Bow Street.
§ The Right Hon.
§ The Speaker of the House of Commons.