10. Captain CRAIGasked the Chief Sectary whether he is aware that on the night of the 5th July thirty-nine head of cattle were driven off a farm near Carrickmacross, county Monaghan, and were found eight miles away the next day, and that the gates were removed from the 2227 fields and the cattle abused; and if any person has been made amenable for this outrage?
§ Mr. BIRRELLThe police authorities inform me that on 28th June thirty-nine head of cattle were driven off a farm near Carrickmacross, and were all recovered next day uninjured at a considerable distance from the farm. The cattle were not abused. One iron gate was taken off its hinges and thrown down, and the bolt of another was broken. Up to the present no person has been made amenable in connection with the affair.
11. Captain CRAIGasked the Chief Secretary if he has received any report to the effect that a man named P. Hannavan was fired at and wounded in the county Managhan on the 12th July last?
§ Mr. BIRRELLThe police authorities inform me that on the 12th July Patrick Hannavan was fired at and slightly wounded upon the left finger. The woman who fired the shot has been returned for trial.
§ Mr. LARDNERIs it a fact that this lady is the wife of a prominent Protestant in the district, and that she pleaded that she was not aware that the gun was loaded at the time she fired the shot?
§ Mr. BIRRELLI have no doubt whatever can be said will be said when the case comes on for trial.
12. Captain CRAIGasked the Chief Secretary whether he is aware that on the night of Friday, 5th July, both the ears of a valuable horse, the property of a farmer named Abane, in county Cork, were cut off; and if any person has been made amenable for this outrage?
§ Mr. BIRRELLThe police authorities inform me that two horses, the property of a farmer at Ahanebeg, county Cork, had their left ears cut off on the night of the 5th July. So far the perpetrators of this abominable outrage have not been traced.
14. Captain CRAIGasked the Chief Secretary if on the night of the 5th July a quantity of tar was thrown over the foot of the statue of Lord Farnham in the town of Cavan, and a vault belonging to the Moore family in the Franciscan cemetery in Cavan was desecrated on the same night; and whether any one has been made amenable for these outrages?
§ Mr. BIRRELLI would refer the hon. Member to the reply given to the question on this subject asked by the hon. Member for West Cavan on the 25th July.