HC Deb 21 November 1906 vol 165 cc834-5
MR. LONSDALE

I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether he is aware that Mr. Thomas Francis Joyce, a grazier, of Mounterowen House, county Galway, has complained to the police of the erection of a gallows on his avenue; and whether the police have succeeded in discovering the perpetrators of this outrage.

MR. BRYCE

I am informed by the police authorities that Mr. Joyce has made no complaint to the effect stated, and that as a matter of fact nothing in the nature of a gallows was erected on his premises, and no outrage of any kind has been committed against him.

MR. LONSDALE

Is it not the fact that emblems of mortality were erected?

MR. BRYCE

I do not know what the hon. Member means by "emblems of mortality" unless it be a tombstone?

MR. LONSDALE

Gallows, I say.

MR. BRYCE

There was no gallows.

MR. FLAVIN

Are there any Russian eggs on sale there as Irish?