HC Deb 25 February 1901 vol 89 cc1050-1
MR. FLYNN

I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether he is aware that a man named John R. O'Sullivan. of Mill-street district, county Cork, was sentenced at the Cork Assizes in 1892 to two terms of imprisonment of ten and fourteen years, to run successively; and whether, in view of the sympathy felt for the man's wife and family, he will communicate with the Lord Lieutenant with a view of recommending the exercise of the Royal Clemency in this case.

MR. WYNDHAM

The prisoner named in the question was convicted at the Munster Winter Assizes of 1891 of two separate offences and sentenced, as stated. His case has been considered by the Lord Lieutenant several times, on memorial, the last occasion so recently as the 10th January, when it was decided that the law must take its course.

MR. FLAVIN

Can the right hon. Gentleman say why the same clemency was not extended to this man as was shown to the bailiff' of Lord Kenmare, who committed a murder?

* MR. SPEAKER

Order, order !