§ Mr. GUINEYasked the Attorney-General for Ireland whether he is aware that two men, named John Connors and John Angland, who were to be tried at the recent Cork Assizes, and the case adjourned to next assizes, were discharged by Judge Dodd to appear at Newmarket Petty Sessions, and gave securities; that. Connors has since absconded; will he explain why these two men were not arrested in Cork on a warrant to serve one month's imprisonment to which they were sentenced on the 9th December, 1910, the date of the adjourned trial at Cork being March, 1911; were the bails entered into by Connors and Angland continuing bails, or were they without bails from the date of the adjournment in Cork until the next Newmarket Petty Sessions; will he say whether these men were returned for trial for serious assault on an All-for-Irelander; and will the Government order an inquiry into these breaches in the execution of the law?
§ Mr. REDMOND BARRYI refer to the reply given by the Chief Secretary on 29th March to a question by the hon. Gentleman relating to this case. The man2566W attacked was, I understand, an All-for-Irelander. I am aware of the adjournment of the case from the recent Spring Assizes to the Summer Assizes, and, I am informed that the presiding judge directed that the accused should attend at the Newmarket Petty Sessions on 31st March to enter into bail with sureties for their appearance at the Summer Assizes. In this order the learned judge followed a course frequently adopted. I understand the previous bails were not continuing, and the accused were not accordingly under bail in the interval. I am informed by the police that the warrant referred to was not executed at Cork, the police taking the view that owing to the judge's directions that the men should attend at the Newmarket Sessions on 31st March, it would not be expedient to execute it in the meantime. I have stated the whole facts of the case, and there is nothing to be elicited by an inquiry.