HC Deb 26 April 1883 vol 278 c1146
MR. HARRINGTON

asked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Whether James Kelly, one of the prisoners awaiting trial for the outrage at Weston House, was confined for some weeks in Ballinasloe bridewell during the month of February; whether he was during that time visited on five different occasions by a detective who was locked into the cell with him, contrary to the prison regulations; whether on each of these occasions the detective gave him whiskey to drink, and afterwards produced a purse of money, which he told him he would receive if he swore informations against certain persons named by the detective, and who were not at all in custody; whether, as a further inducement, the detective stated to him that the other men charged had offered to give information which would cendemn Kelly to penal servitude; and, whether this latter statement was a falsehood?

MR. TREVELYAN

Sir, James Kelly was confined for a time in Ballinasloe Bridewell. He was not visited there by a detective, nor did he get any whisky.

MR. HARRINGTON

asked the right hon. Gentleman whether inquiry had been made of James Kelly himself; and said that, in consequence of the answer he had received, he should take an early opportunity of calling the attention of the House to the gross inaccuracy of the information supplied to the Chief Secretary.