§ MR. LONSDALEI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether he will state the number of cases of boycotting, intimidation, shooting outrages, and malicious destruction of property reported to the Irish Constabulary during the months of January, February, and March, this year; and the number of arrests made, prosecutions instituted, and convictions obtained as the result of their investigation of these cases.
MR. BRYCEThe Inspector-General informs me that in the period mentioned there were eight cases of boycotting. The number of cases of intimidation, 1282 exclusive of threatening letters, was six; and in one of these cases the accused was arrested, prosecuted, and convicted the number of cases of firing at the person and into dwelling houses was fourteen. Eight of the offenders were arrested and prosecuted; three of these were convicted and one committed suicide. There were eighty-one cases of malicious-destruction of property, including incendiary fires. Sixteen persons were arrested and five summoned, making twenty-one prosecuted; seventeen of these were convicted, one died, one is a waiting trial, and two were discharged.