HC Deb 05 May 1887 vol 314 cc965-6
DR. TANNER (Cork Co., Mid)

asked Mr. Attorney General for Ireland, Whether two emergency men, named respectively Daniel Falvey and Timothy Buckley, were brought before the Ahadillane Bench of Magistrates, Captain Stokes, R.M., presiding, on last Wednesday, the 27th April, and charged with attacking the dwelling house of a farmer, named Edmond Twohig, at Donoughmore, on the 25th of last March; whether the charge was substantiated by several witnesses; whether it was also sworn that Buckley, on the occasion in question, drew a revolver, and Falvey called on him to fire upon Twohig and his young daughters; whether, notwithstanding the evidence adduced, Captain Stokes, R.M., although stating "the outrage should not have been committed," refused to send the case forward for trial; whether the other magistrate, Mr. Charles Lynch, disagreed with this decision, saying, "that such downright blackguardism should not go unpunished; whether the emergency man Falvey was confined in the Upton Reformatory for five years for breaking into a dwelling house; and, whether he will call the attention of the Lord Chancellor to the case?

THE ATTORNEY GENERAL FOR IRELAND (Mr. HOLMES) (Dublin University)

, in reply, said, the information he possessed did not bear out the statements made by the hon. Gentleman in his Question.

DR. TANNER

May I ask the right hon. and learned Gentleman, whether the words I have put down in the Question as being used by the magistrates which were reported in the local newspapers are not absolutely correct; and, whether, again, it was not sworn by two or three witnesses that this man Buckley drew a revolver, and that Falvey called to fire upon Twohig and his two young daughters? I will ask the right hon. and learned Gentleman also a point which I inserted in the Question; but which I find has been removed from the Paper—

MR. SPEAKER

Order, order! The hon. Gentleman is, therefore, not entitled to ask it.

MR. HOLMES

said, he was informed that there was no truth in the story, and he could only repeat what he had previously stated. In regard to much of what the hon. Member observed he had no information.

DR. TANNER

Of course, I shall repeat this Question.