SIR HENRY FLETCHERasked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, If any arrests have been made in connection with the outrage perpetrated on a constabulary pensioner, named Magaghy, living near Attboy, county Meath, whose house was entered on Sunday night by three armed men, who shot him in the breast; and, whether any further outrages have been reported from the same neighbourhood?
§ MR. TREVELYANSir, two arrests have been made in connection with this outrage. No further outrage has been reported from the same neighbourhood.
§ MR. REDMONDasked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Whether it is a fact that on the 19th inst. every sub-inspector of Constabulary in Ireland received from the Inspector General an order to have his men on the alert, as it was expected that outrages of a certain class, not specified, would be perpetrated on the 20th inst.; whether any outrages were committed on that date; and, whether the Government acted upon the information of the special resident magistrates?
§ MR. TREVELYANSir, I must respectfully decline to answer this Question. If any such Circular was issued, it was, as a matter of course, a confidential document, and any public knowledge of it must have arisen through a grave breach of confidence.
§ SIR WALTER B. BARTTELOTasked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, If the following report in the "Times" of an outrage is correct:—
On Sunday an outrage was committed at the house of a rent warder and gamekeeper named Jeremiah M'Carthy. M'Carthy was in the employment of Mr. Langford, J.P., and resided at a place called Rowells Langford, a remote district on the borders of the counties of Cork and Limerick. Yesterday, while the members of M'Carthy's family, with the exception of his daughter, were absent at Rock Chapel, four men entered the house with their faces blackened. They seized M'Carthy's daughter, gagged her, and cut off her hair. In the struggle her arms were cut by the sharp instrument employed in removing the hair. She was dragged outside the house, which was then set on fire and burnt down. The only explanation 911 of this outrage is, that M'Carthy filled the unpopular post of a bailiff, and as such had endeavoured to protect the interests of his employer;and, if the above report is substantially true, whether any persons have been taken into custody?
§ MR. TREVELYANSir, the report of the outrage is correct. No arrests have been made. Active exertions are being made by the police, but they receive no assistance from the people.
§ MR. SCHREIBERasked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Whether it is true, as reported in the "Times" of the 26th instant, that two men, armed with revolvers and wearing masks, entered the house of Thomas Donnellan, near Ennis, county Clare, and made him swear to quit the employment of a local magistrate; whether, on the same night and in the same locality, two men entered the houses of two tenants of Mr. Stafford O'Brien, knocked one of them down, and made the other swear never again to be guilty of "the unpardonable sin of paying rent;" and, if so, whether anyone has been brought to justice for these outrages?
§ MR. TREVELYANSir, it is true that on the evening of June 17, two men armed with revolvers and wearing masks entered the house of Thomas Donnellan and warned him to leave the employment of a local magistrate. They did not swear him. Donnellan said he could not identify the parties, and consequently no arrests have been made. So far as the Constabulary are aware, the other outrages referred to in the Question did not occur.