§ MR. VINCENT SCULLYsaid, he rose to ask the Chief Secretary for Ireland, If he has any official information to the effect that the recent Murder in the county of Tipperary was committed about 3 p.m., at a most open spot on the public highroad, within two and a half miles of the Police Station at New Inn, and three and a half miles of those at Cashel and Golden respectively, and that its commission was not known to the Police at New Inn until 7 p.m., at Cashel until 8 p.m., or at Golden until the following morning?
§ SIR ROBERT PEELreplied, that he could only repeat what he had stated the other evening. He was not aware of the exact distance of the scene of Mr. Thiebault's murder from the police barracks named by the hon. Member, but no doubt his information was correct. As regarded the commission of the offence, the whole of the parties suspected of being implicated in the murder were arrested on the night succeeding the outrage.
COLONEL DICKSONsaid, that the right hon. Baronet had not given any answer to the question, which had reference to a subject of very great importance. The question of the hon. Member for Tipperary was not directed as to whether any person 1559 had been arrested on suspicion of the murder. What they wished to know was, whether it was a fact that a heinous murder had been committed at 3 o'clock in the afternoon; and, although the police barrack was within three miles and a half of the place where the outrage was committed, no information was received at the barrack until fully four hours after the murder had taken place.