§ MR. J. MURPHY (Kerry, E.)To ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland if he will state by whose authority a force of police accompanied, the Under-Sheriff of the County of Kerry to evict Mr. Richard J. Walsh, of Kilmurry, Castleisland, County Kerry, recently, when it was a matter of public notoriety that Mr. Walsh's mother, an old woman of eighty years, was unfit for removal, and considerable expense to the public funds thereby incurred.
(Answered by Mr. Birrell.) The police, force attended upon the requisition of the sheriff. The authorities are bound to afford sufficient protection in such cases. The sheriff declined to act on the rumour that Mrs. Walsh was ill and unable to be moved, but he took a doctor to examine the sick woman, and, upon his certificate, further proceedings were abandoned.