§ MR. LONSDALEI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland what is the number of persons returned as boycotted during the past two years who were, in addition, the victims of overt outrage; and will he indicate the acts of outrage committed in each case without specifying the names of the individuals attacked.
§ MR. BIRRELLDuring the past two years indictable offences were committed against sixty-one persons who were the subject of boycotting or attempts to boycott. The offences were as follows: Firing at the person, eight cases; firing into dwellings, fourteen; incendiary fires, nine; killing or maiming cattle, four; injury to property, fourteen; larceny, six; intimidation by threatening letters, twenty-four; intimidation by other means, nine.