§ 12. Colonel Sir A. SPROTasked 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. HENRYThe 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.