MR. P. O'BRIENI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether he can say how the guard of the Cork mail train became aware that the parcel recently found by him in a carriage at Limerick Junction contained dynamite; is it usual for railway servants to examine the contents of lost luggage; and, if not, what special circumstances led to the examination in this case; whether the arrest of Mr. Halligan without a warrant was according to the usual practice of the Royal Irish Constabulary; and was the arrest legal?
§ MR. JACKSONI have no official information on the subject of the first two paragraphs. The arrest was made without a warrant under the ordinary procedure in cases of emergency. The answer to the last paragraph is in the affirmative.
MR. P. O'BRIENHow does the right hon. Gentleman reconcile this mode of procedure with that adopted some time since, when a man charged with manslaughter was not arrested for some days pending the issue of a warrant?
§ MR. JACKSONI do not see any connection with the question on the Paper, which I have answered according to the information I have received.