§ MR. GLENDINNING (Antrim, N.)To ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether the attention of the Irish Government has been called to the fact that Mr. Lindsay Crawford and his friends were refused admission to the Brownlow Arms Hotel, Lurgan, a few days ago: and, as these are licensed premises, have the police instituted proceedings against the proprietors for this breach of the law.
(Answered by Mr. Bryce.) I am informed that on the 12th inst, a few days before the polling for North Armagh, Mr. Crawford and his friends were refused admission to the Brownlow Arms Hotel at Lurgan. It would appear that Mr. Crawford had just attempted to address a meeting but had failed to obtain a hearing, and was being pursued by a large and somewhat menacing crowd when he sought admission to the hotel. In the opinion of the police the house would have suffered at the hands of the crowd, despite the efforts of the police, if Mr. Crawford had been admitted. No proceedings have yet been instituted, but the question whether an offence against the licensing or other law was committed by the proprietor of the hotel is at present under consideration.