HC Deb 10 June 1920 vol 130 c572
12. Colonel Sir A. SPROT

asked the Chief Secretary for Ireland whether the Government are aware that a notice was recently posted in Brosna, county Kerry, to the effect that any person found entering the Court to-day would be shot dead, and signed I. R. A., and that 63 persons had been summoned to attend petty sessions but none of them appeared in Court; and whether the Government are taking adequate steps to see that the law of the land is enforced and to compel obedience to summonses to attend petty sessions?

Mr. HENRY

The answer to the first part of the question is in the affirmative. A large number of persons were summoned charged with larceny of timber. The defendants did not attend, and owing to the absence of a representative of the landlord to prove the case the resident magistrate was, therefore, obliged to adjourn the cases to the next petty sessions at Castleisland.