§ MR. BARRYasked Mr. Attorney General for Ireland, Whether any report 872 has reached the Government of an outrage committed by the wife of the sub-inspector of police at Taghmon, county Wexford, who, it is alleged, on the 8th instant, fired a revolver at her servant man, whose face was scorched by the discharge, the bullet passing through a window and lodged in the woodwork of a house on the opposite side of the street; and, if the Government will cause inquiry to be made into this case?
§ THE ATTORNEY GENERAL FOR IRELAND (Mr. W. M. JOHNSON)A civil action has been brought by the servant in this case, and, it being still pending, it is not my place to say anything on the subject.
§ MR. HEALYinquired whether it was not the duty of the right hon. and learned Gentleman to conduct criminal proceedings, instead of allowing the matter to be settled by a civil action?
§ THE ATTORNEY GENERAL FOR IRELAND (Mr. W. M. JOHNSON)It is not my duty to do so.