§ MR. LANE (Cork County, E.)asked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether his attention had been called to the case of an emergency man, named Daniel Murphy, who was in charge of an evicted farm on the Lansdowne estate, in Kerry, and who was sentenced to two concurrent terms of six months' hard labour, on 18th March, at Kenmare, for writing letters to John Foley and James Shea, threatening them with "a sudden and unholy death" if they took the "boycotted farm" which he was then care-taking for Lord Lansdowne; did Sergeant Walters, who arrested him, send a message (at prisoner's request, to the Lansdowne office, to have him defended by a solicitor; was he defended by Mr. Mahony, the solicitor to the estate office; did he acknowledge to having written the second letter when convicted of the first; and, did the police authorities of the district compare the writing in these letters with other threatening letters in their possession, and are those letters included in the Return of "threatening letters" issued to Parliament?
§ MR. A. J. BALFOURThe Constabulary authorities report that the facts are substantially as stated in the first four paragraphs of the question. The police did not compare the letters with other threatening letters in their possession. The letters will be included in the Returns of outrages to be presented to Parliament.