THE EARL OF CAMPERDOWN ,in whose name the following Notice stood upon the Paper—
To ask whether it is true that the widow and daughter of James Fitzmaurice, who was murdered at Lixnaw, county Kerry, and whose murderers await execution in Tralee Gaol, are being severely boycotted and are obliged to have police protection; whether it is true that upon Norah Fitzmaurice, on whose evidence the murderers were found guilty, entering chapel on Sunday, 15th April, a person named Dorling, who was secretary to the local branch of the National League, signalled to the congregation to leave, upon which a considerable number of the congregation left"—said that it had been his intention to bring certain facts under the notice of the House; but he saw by the morning papers that the local secretary of the National League, a person of the name of Dorling, to whose action he had intended to draw their Lordships' attention, had been prosecuted by the Government for using intimidating language towards Norah Fitzmaurice, the daughter of the murdered man, and had been sentenced to six months' imprisonment with hard labour, against which sentence he had appealed. Although his Question related to matters of fact and was not directed to the point whether those matters were legal or not, yet if a discussion were to arise in the House at the present moment, it might be said that such discussion had prejudiced the defence of a man who was upon his trial. Therefore, with their Lordships' permission, he would postpone the Question of which he had given Notice. Of course, on a future occasion, as soon as the appeal had been disposed of, he should exercise his right of bringing before the House all the facts of the case, which appeared to him to reach 135 issues extending far beyond this murder, terrible though the murder was.