§ 33. Mr. FITZGIBBONasked the Home Secretary whether his attention has been called to the arrest of Mr. Richard Edmund Prendergast, formerly of Caraun, Claremorris, county Mayo, who was arrested by the local police in Cheshire on 8th October on the warrant of the Salford police for military purposes; and can he state why this man was not first tried before a local magistrate, he being at the time engaged in farming on his own farm?
§ The SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Sir G. Cave)This man was arrested by the Royal Irish Constabulary at Claremorris, and brought back to Salford, where he was born and lived up to this year and where alone his case could be dealt with, the warrant having been issued at Salford.