MR. JASPER TULLY (Leitrim, S.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether he is aware that Michael Muldowney, who after repeated trials was convicted in 534 Sligo, in 1884, for an agrarian offence, and has now been 13 years in penal servitude, has been most exemplary in his conduct in prison; and whether his case will be included amongst those to whom the clemency of the Crown will be extended on the commemoration of Her Majesty's Diamond Jubilee?
* MR. GERALD BALFOURThe convict named in the Question was convicted at Sligo Summer Assizes of July 1884, of the crime of murder, and was sentenced to death, which sentence was commuted to one of penal servitude for life. He had previously been tried at the Spring Assizes of that year, when the Jury disagreed. The convict committed breaches of the prison rules in 1885 and 1888, and these are the only offences recorded aganst him since his incarceration. I know of no reason for extending to this prisoner any exceptional treatment?