HC Deb 10 March 1882 vol 267 cc586-7
DR. COMMINS

asked Mr. Attorney General for Ireland, Whether he has seen a paragraph in the "Times" of Wednesday, stating that A young man named Carroll, servant to a Roman Catholic clergyman at Coachford, has been committed for trial on the charge of posting up a notice, calling on the farmers to attend at the farm of a suspect named O'Leary and till his land; and, whether such statement is true; and, if so, under what statute has this man been so charged and committed?

THE ATTORNEY GENERAL FOR IRELAND (Mr. W. M. JOHNSON)

, in reply, said he had not seen the paragraph in The Times; but in consequence of the Question he had made inquiries, and found that Carroll had been arrested under the Conspiracy and Protection of Property Act, 1875.