HC Deb 06 July 1860 vol 159 c1530
SIR EDWARD GROGAN

said, he rose to ask the Chief Secretary for Ireland, if his attention has been called to the Trial which lately took place before Barons Fitzgerald and Hughes, connected with the wrecking of Mrs. Sherwood's house in the City of Dublin; if any, and what steps have been taken, or are intended to be taken by the authorities, to mark their sense of the conduct of the Policemen on duty in the neighbourhood who permitted such an outrage to occur? It appeared that Mrs. Sherwood's husband was a seaman in a ship that had been lost, and it was supposed that he perished in the wreck. Mrs. Sherwood had seven children by him. A philanthropic person proposed to take charge of four of the children. Owing to her consent to that proposition, her house was wrecked by a brutal mob, who twice threw a burning chair into her house.