§ MR. MAURICE HEALY (Cork)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether the attention of the Irish Prisons Board has been called to the facts connected with the death of Henry Pedley, in the Cork District Lunatic Asylum in February last, as proved at the trial which has just 624 taken place at the Cork Assizes, where Daniel Murphy, an attendant in the asylum, was tried for the manslaughter of Pedley, and acquitted; is he aware that it was established in evidence at the said trial that Pedley died from blood poisoning arising out of the fracture of four of his ribs from violent treatment received in the asylum; whether it is intended to institute any inquiry as to how Pedley's ribs were fractured; and whether any person is responsible for his death?
§ THE CHIEF SECRETARY for IRELAND (Mr. J. MORLEY,) Newcastle-upon-TyneThe facts are as stated in the question, and one of the Inspectors of Lunatic Asylums has been instructed to hold an inquiry into the circumstances connected with Pedley's death.