§ DR. ROBERT AMBROSE (Mayo, W.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether he is aware that on 27th June an emergency man named Doyle, who is under police protection at Cultrain Farm, Westport, county Mayo, pointed a revolver in the street of Westport at a man named Richard Kelly; that the 1233 revolver was taken by force from Doyle, and handed to the police; that Doyle has also got a licence for two double-barrelled breachloading guns; and that he recently attacked the house of a farmer named Grimes; whether he will consider the propriety of withdrawing Doyle's licence to carry firearms; and whether it is the duty of the police to prosecute Doyle for attempting to use a revolver in the streets of Westport?
§ MR. GERALD BALFOURI am informed that Doyle is not an emergency man, that he is not under police protection, that he did not point his revolver at Kelly in the street, and that he did not attack Grimes. It appears that on the date mentioned Doyle and Kelly engaged in a wrestling match in the yard attached to a public-house in Westport, in the course of which Doyle's revolver found its way out of his pocket. Doyle said Kelly took the weapon from his pocket. Kelly says Doyle drew it, and a friend of Kelly's who was present declares himself unable to say by whom it was drawn. There are no sufficient grounds for withdrawing Doyle's licence to carry firearms, and there is no evidence to sustain a prosecution against him for drawing his revolver on the occasion.