§ MR. KENNEDY (Kildare, N.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether, on the night of Monday, the 18th instant, a man named Laurence Fox was shot whilst in the act of taking rabbits out of traps on the Clongorey Estate, County Kildare: whether Laurence Fox was accompanied at the time by an emergency man named Andrew Fox; whether extra police and emergency men have for years been accommodated in the house of Laurence Fox's father; whether attempts have been made to cast suspicion on the evicted tenants in connection with repeated thefts of rabbits and traps in this neighbourhood; whether an emergency man named Burton has been apprehended on the charge of shooting Laurence Fox: and whether Burton is licensed to carry arms?
MR. J. MORLEYThe statements in the first paragraph are correct. Laurence Fox was accompanied at the time by Andrew Fox., who is not an emergency man, but an assistant herd on the estate. I am informed that it is not a fact that police and emergency men have been accommodated in the house of Laurence Fox's father, and that the police are not aware that there is any foundation for the statement in the fourth paragraph. A gamekeeper on the estate, named Boughton, is in custody charged with shooting at Fox, and will be brought before the Magistrate at Petty Sessions on January 3. He is, I believe, licensed to carry a revolver, which, however, will remain in the custody of the police pending the proceedings which have been instituted against him.