Mr. HEALYasked the Chief Secretary for Ireland whether Sergeant Bannon, Royal Irish Rifles, acknowledged in Store Street Police Station, Dublin, that he shot therein Constable William Frith, No. 174 C, Dublin Metropolitan Police; whether the military afterwards explained to the superintendent in Store Street that they did not know it was a police station that they had fired into; whether this case figures in General Maxwell's account of the slaughter of police by rebels; what compensation has been offered, or is intended to be paid, to the mother or dependants of this officer killed in the execution of his duty; and is he aware that Mrs. Frith has suffered severely and mentally owing to shock at her son's death at the hands of the military?
§ Mr. DUKEI am informed that Sergeant Bannon stated at Store Street Barracks that he fired shots at the windows through one of which Constable Frith received his fatal injury. The military, I understand,? were not aware at the time that the building into which they were firing was a police barrack. In the view of the military authorities, while it is possible that the death of, the constable may be attributed to military rifle fire, there is doubt on the point, as rebel sniping was also going on2290W in that vicinity. The name of Constable Frith does not appear in General Maxwell's dispatch. The dependants of the deceased constable will receive a gratuity, the amount of which has not yet been determined.