§ 14. Sir JOHN LONSDALEasked if any person has been arrested in connection with the shooting outrage which occurred at Rahoon House, county Galway, on 2nd November?
§ Mr. BIRRELLOn the morning of the 2nd instant, between midnight and one o'clock, shots were fired into one of the windows of the house mentioned in the question, breaking several panes of glass. The police are making inquiries, but have been so far unable to obtain evidence to justify any arrests.
§ 15. Sir JOHN LONSDALEasked the Chief Secretary if his attention has been called to the fact that in the year 1911, in Ireland, offences against property with violence reported to the police numbered 867, being 135 over the number for the preceding year, and sixty-two over the average for the five years 1906–10, and that cases of injury to property reported as malicious numbered 916 and were sixty-four more than the number recorded for 462 the preceding year, and 253 over the average of the five years ending 1910; if he will state in how many of the reported cases of malicious injuries to property were proceedings instituted against the perpetrators; and in how many cases were convictions obtained?
§ Mr. BIRRELLThe figures, as regards offences of the two classes mentioned in the question are as stated, but I may point out that the total number of indictable offences in 1911 was thirty-nine below the number in the preceding year and twenty below the average for the preceding five years. Two hundred and three persons were proceeded against during the year for malicious injuries to property and two convictions were obtained at Petty Sessions and ninety-three at Assizes and Quarter Sessions.