§ Mr. NEWMANasked the Chief Secretary if Mr. Thomas Duggan, of Tralee, county Kerry, who was sentenced on the 13th of November of this year to three months' hard labour for assaulting the police, is one and the same person as the Mr. Thomas Duggan who was sentenced in August, 1910, to one month's imprisonment with hard labour, at Tralee, for assaulting the police; and, if so, whether he is the same person as the Thomas Duggan who assaulted the police in the execution of their duty at Kilmurry, near Castleisland, on the 22nd of June, 1909, by flinging boiling tar and lime into their eyes; and if he is aware that the then Attorney-General for Ireland stated that it would be overstraining the matter to put him on his trial for assaulting the police; and if he will state the number and particulars of the previous convictions against Mr. Thomas Duggan?
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§ Mr. BIRRELLThe police authorities inform me that the Thomas Duggan concerned in these three cases is one and the same person. The late Attorney-General's statement on the subject will be found in his reply to the question asked by the hon. Member for East Down on 28th July, 1910. I see no reason for publishing a list of Duggan's previous convictions.