§ MAJOR JAMESONI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant 1256 of Ireland whether he is aware that Sergeant Callan, Royal Irish Constabulary, of Kilmihil, County Clare, stopped and arrested a young man of that village, took him to the police station, stripped and searched him, and that the young man was at once released on the return of the senior sergeant of police; and will he have the matter investigated and Sergeant Callan removed from Kilmihil.
§ MR. WYNDHAMThe man was suspected of having unlicensed firearms late at night. He refused to allow Sergeant Callan to examine him, or to give his name. At the barracks, however, he allowed the sergeant to satisfy himself that he had no arms concealed, and was at once discharged. It is not the fact that the man was stripped. The matter has been fully investigated, and it is not proposed to remove the sergeant.
§ MAJOR JAMESONIs it according to the law of the land for the police to treat a man in this way?
§ CAPTAIN DONELAN (Cork, E.)Is it the law in Ireland that a man may be thus stopped and searched?
§ * MR. SPEAKEROrder, order! That is a general question which does not arise out of the Question on the Paper.
§ MR. SWIFT MACNEILL (Donegal, S.)"Sheridan."