§ MR. FLAVINI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether he is aware that an employee of Lord Kenmare, locally known as Paddy the Wad, who was sentenced to twenty years penal servitude for kicking an old woman to death in the district of Killarney, has been released, from prison; and. can he state what term of actual imprisonment did this man undergo after his sentence and up to the time of his release, and on what grounds and on whose recommendation he was released.
MR. G. W. BALFOUEPatrick Brosnan, to whom the question refers, was convicted at the Minister Winter-Assizes, 1894, of the manslaughter of a woman, and sentenced to twenty years penal servitude. His term of actual imprisonment amounted to nearly two years. He was released in November, 1896, on the ground of health, upon a report furnished by the medical officers of the prison, which was concurred in by the medical member of the Prisons Board.
§ MR. FLAVINWhat was the matter with the gentleman's health? Were there any other reasons for his release?
§ MR. G. W. BALFOURI have said he was released on the ground of health.