HC Deb 04 May 1893 vol 12 c68
MR. DANE

I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether he is aware that the wife of a man named Peter Corrigan, living near Belcoo, in County Fermanagh, is being boycotted for the taking by her husband of an evicted farm; that she has been persistently boycotted in the Blacklion market, and butter and egg merchants warned against purchasing from her; and that she was assaulted at Belcoo on the 22nd March by a man named M'Grory, and pursued by two men with blackened faces on the Ora Mountain on the 5th April, who threatened her life unless her husband gave up the land; and has any action been taken by the police authorities towards affording her protection and prosecuting her assailants?

*MR. J. MORLEY

There appear, I regret to say, to be grounds for the statements in the question. Prosecutions for assault and boycotting have been ordered, and will be heard at Petty Sessions on the 19th instant.