HC Deb 27 October 1902 vol 113 cc820-1
MR. PATRICK O'BRIEN

I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, whether Sergeant Sullivan, who was tried for perjury in the West of Ireland, and who is now stationed in Dunshaughlin, county Meath, got any step in promotion in the rank of sergeants since he was tried for perjury; and whether his removal to a station of the class of Dunshaughlin, which is the headquarters of a district inspector, constitutes promotion in the Royal Irish Constabulary.

MR. WYNDHAM

The charge on which Sergeant Sullivan was prosecuted at the Sligo Winter Assizes of 1898, and on which he was acquitted, was, in popular language, for having written a letter inciting to crime. The answer to the remainder of the Question is in the negative.