§ MR. T. J. HEALY (Wexford, N.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland why the prisoner Handley, convicted at the recent Wicklow Assizes for a murder committed in the County Wicklow, is to be executed in Wexford; whether there is a county gaol in Wicklow where the execution could take place; and, if that gaol is not convenient for the purpose, why the execution should not be carried out in Dublin, or some other place nearer the scene of the murder than Wexford?
§ MR. JACKSONThe Lord Lieutenant's Order of 6th April, 1880, closing Wicklow Prison, directs that Wexford Prison shall be the legal place of detention for prisoners from the County Wicklow. His Excellency has been advised that the sentence referred to cannot legally be carried out in any prison other than Wexford.