HC Deb 15 April 1887 vol 313 cc997-8
MR. RADCLIFFE COOKE (Newington, W.)

asked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Whether his attention had been called to the following statement in The Times newspaper of Monday last: — Cork, 10th April. A cowardly outrage was perpetrated at Cullen, near Millstreet, last Sunday evening. Three respectable young girls were walking on the high road when they were waylaid by some of the local village tyrants. The ruffians accused the girls of having spoken to policemen notwithstanding the warning they lately received. They then tore their hats off, which they kicked about the road. Others of the party provided themselves with furze bushes, and, raising the girls' clothes, they beat them most cruelly about the legs; whether the facts, as above stated, are correct; and, whether any stops have been taken to punish the offenders?

THE CHIEF SECRETARY (Mr. A.,T. BALFOUR) (Manchester, E.)

This Question necessitated local inquiry, and I have not yet been furnished with the requisite information.

Subsequently,

MR. SEXTON (Belfast, W.)

said, he wished to ask the Chief Secretary, Whether, seeing this outrage was alleged to have been committed five days ago in a district in which there was a telegraph station, no reply had yet been received?

MR. A. J. BALFOUR

No, Sir; no reply has been received.

MR. SEXTON

There is no official information yet?

MR. A. J. BALFOUR

No.