§ MR. JOHN ROCHE (Galway, E.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether he is aware that at the late assizes held at Galway a man named Michael Mahon applied for compensation for the malicious burning of his House; that Mahon swore that a threatening notice was posted upon his door a few nights before application was heard stating that if he went to Galway he was doomed, 1591 and also having a picture of a coffin drawn upon it; whether the police at the trial proved to the satisfaction of the Judge that the notice was written by Mahon; and will he say what action the Crown intend to take in the matter.
§ MR. CHERRYThe facts are substantially as stated in the Question, but I have no information as to whether the Judge expressed himself as being satisfied that the threatening notice was written by Mahon himself. The question as to what action, if any, should, be taken in the matter is under consideration.