HC Deb 03 July 1882 vol 271 c1249
SIR CHARLES MILLS

asked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, If the following report of an outrage, in the "Times" of the 29th instant, is correct:— At Ballynore, near Boyle, on Tuesday night, the tails of thirty heifers and eight bullocks, the property of a farmer named Anderson, were cut off, the animals being otherwise mutilated. The reason assigned for the committal of the outrage is that Anderson took a farm from which the tenant had been evicted. Graves were some time ago dug on his land, and notices posted up threatening him with death if he took the farm; and, if any person has been arrested on suspicion of having committed these offences?

MR. TREVELYAN

Sir, the matter has been much exaggerated in the newspapers. The facts are that some hair was cut off the tails of 20 head of cattle, the property of John Anderson. It was carefully cut, and the animals were not injured or mutilated in any way. Before Anderson had taken this farm, rough graves were marked out on it and notices posted warning persons not to take the house portion of the farm. Nobody has been arrested in connection with the matter.