DR. J. E. KENNYI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, whether he will take into consideration the case of M. KINSELLA, now in Mount joy Convict Prison undergoing penal servitude, to which he was sentenced in 1882 on a charge of causing the death by shooting of an intimate companion of his own, with a view to recommending His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant to liberate Kinsella.
MR. J. MORLEYI find that the case of the convict referred to has been under the consideration of successive lords-lieutenant, and that so recently as April last it was reviewed by the present Lord Lieutenant, who satisfied himself that there were no mitigating 959 circumstances in the case calling for a remission of the sentence. I may add, however, that the convict will be eligible, with good conduct, for release on licence in April 1897.
§ MR. T. HARRINGTON (Dublin, Harbour)asked whether the attention of the right hon. Gentleman had been drawn to the fact that the Judge, in sentencing Kinsella, held out the hope that when the state of the country was more peaceable, the circumstances of the case might be re-considered?
MR. J. MORLEYsaid, he had read some statement of the kind in a paper, but he was not of his own knowledge aware of it.
§ MR. HARRINGTONWill the right hon. Gentleman make inquiries?
MR. MORLEYsaid that, if the fact was as stated by the hon. Member, he did not know that it would make any difference in the decision arrived at.