§ MR. M'GILLIGANI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether he is aware that at the recent Assizes held in Enniskillen no bill was returned against Robert M'Gabey, a Unionist registration agent, although the prosecution was made at the instance of County Court Judge Orr, who stated that the accused had committed deliberate wilful perjury; also that at the same Assizes no bill was returned against Robert Dane Lissen, who was returned for trial on a charge of shooting at Robert W. Beacom of the same place, at a special Petty Sessions Court presided over by E. F. Hickson, R.M., at Enniskillen; and whether the Attorney General for Ireland will institute a fresh prosecution of these parties?
MR. J. MORLEYIt is a fact that the County Fermanagh jury threw out the bill in each of the two cases referred to. I have caused the papers to be laid before the Attorney General, and he advises that in the first case the evidence of wilful perjury was weak and unsatisfactory, and that in the second case the Grand Jury came to the conclusion that, the shot was fired, not at Mr. Beacom, but at a dog that accompanied him. The Attorney General does not consider that the facts would warrant him in directing fresh bills to be sent up at a future Assizes.
§ MR. W. JOHNSTONWhat became of the dog?
§ [The question was not answered.]