§ Mr. EDWARD O'KELLYasked the Chief Secretary if he has any incriminatory evidence against the persons who committed an outrage on a public monument in Baltinglass, county Wicklow, in the early morning of the 1st January last, and also on the house of a respectable shopkeeper in the same street on the same occasion; and, if the evidence in the possession of the authorities is sufficient, will he have the offenders brought to justice as soon as possible?
§ Mr. BIRRELLThe Inspector-General informs me that every effort has been made to obtain evidence in this case which would justify a prosecution, but without avail. The acts appear to have been meaningless, and were probably done as a practical joke.