§ Mr. EDWARD KELLYasked the Chief Secretary for Ireland whether he is aware that a boy named John M'Loughlin, of Westport, was arrested on 3rd April by Captain Scott, district inspector, and kept in custody without any charge being brought against him by the police until a writ of habeas corpus had been issued by the King's Bench Division; whether a jury awarded John M'Loughlin £25 damages in an action for false imprisonment brought by him against Captain Scott; whether in the course of the trial Captain Scott admitted that he had promised M'Loughlin a sum of money to emigrate with if he would give satisfactory evidence about the murder of the late Mr. Milling, resident magistrate; whether the evidence required by Captain Scott was that M'Loughlin should swear that he had seen two particular members of the Westport branch of the Irish Transport Workers' Union coming from the direction of Mr. Milling's house immediately after his murder; and whether it is in consequence of Captain Scott's action with regard to M'Loughlin that he has been transferred from Westport to the North of Ireland?
§ Mr. MACPHERSONAn appeal is pending in this case, and I must therefore decline to enter into any discussion upon the matter.