§ Captain NAYLOR-LEYLAND (Colchester)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland is he aware that, on the 17th instant, a herdsman, named Quin, who was about to take an evicted farm, was fired at by several parties concealed behind the hedge on the roadside as he 1661 was going to the fair at Ruan, about six miles from Ennis, in County Clare: and has the Chief Secretary has any hopes that the criminals will be made amenable to justice?
§ * MR. THEOBALD (Essex, Romford)I have a question which I intended to put on a previous occasion, but which, no doubt, will do just as well here. It is, when and where the five men now in custody at Ennis, County Clare, and charged with complicity in the murderous attack upon Mr. Weldon Moloney, will be tried?
MR. J. MORLEYPerhaps the hon. Member will put his question on the Paper. The shots referred to in the question were fired at, or to intimidate, Patrick Lynch (not Quin), who holds a farm which the former tenant was in the habit of letting in meadowing and grazing. I am informed that in August, 1890, and again in July, 1891, shots were fired at Lyuch's son in this locality, the motive for the outrage in each case being the same as that assigned for the recent outrage of which his father was the object. No person was made amenable for either of these outrages, and it may prove that there will be no more successful issue on the present occasion; but nothing will be left undone by the police to load to the detection and arrest of the guilty parties.