§ MR. M'GILLIGAN (Fermanagh, S.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether he is aware that a man named Crawford, residing in the parish of Swanlinbar, County Fermanagh, recently purchased a farm from Lord Erne, was awarded £50 damages by the Fermanagh Grand Jury for the burning of a hut a few days after the sale, which was alleged to be malicious; whether, since, certain mysterious outrages, alleged to be malicious, have been perpetrated upon cattle belonging to the same person, and for which no one has been made amenable; and whether he will instruct the Constabulary to institute a full inquiry into the details surrounding these several alleged malicious acts, with a view to bringing the perpetrators to justice?
MR. J. MORLEYThe facts are as staled in the first paragraph; the compensation for the burning of the house on the evicted farm was granted, however, to Lord Erne, the landlord, and not to Crawford. Regarding the second paragraph, I am informed that on the 17th of July outrages were committed upon a cow belonging to Crawford and upon two other cows the property of his brother. The police have a strong suspicion as to the perpetrator of these outrages, and 244 they have no reason to doubt that the outrages were other than malicious.