§ MR. LIDDELL (Down, W.)To ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether he is aware that on 15th August last one of a party of Nationalists, returning by train from a meeting held at Newry, shot a horse belonging to a farmer named James Martin, who lives a short distance from Scarva, and that the horse subsequently died from the effects of the wound; and will he say whether the police have been able to identify the perpetrator of this outrage.
§ (Answered by Mr. Bryce.) I am informed by the police authorities that on the 15th August last James Martin's horse, which was in a field adjoining the railway near Scarva, was shot with a revolver bullet and subsequently died from the effects thereof. The police used every endeavour to discover the offender, but failed to do to. They have no evidence that the shot was tired from the train.