§ MR. H. GARDNER (Essex, Saffron Walden)asked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Whether John Ryan, an evicted tenant farmer, was committed to Clonmel Gaol for contempt of Court on the 31st of March, 1886; and, whether, he was still in prison in May, 1887?
§ THE PARLIAMENTARY UNDER SECRETARY (Colonel KING-HARMAN) (Kent, Isle of Thanet)(who replied) said: John Ryan was not committed to Clonmel Gaol on the 31st of March, 1886, but on the 4th of June, 1886. He was discharged 12 months afterwards. Ryan was imprisoned not for the ordinary offence of taking re-possession of the evicted holding, but for disobeying an order of the Bankruptcy Court.