QUESTIONS IN THE HOUSE

Evening Post, Volume XCIX, Issue 70, 23 March 1920, Page 8

QUESTIONS IN THE HOUSE

"A MONSTROUS SUGGESTION."

(ArSTRALIAN,- NEW ZEALAND h CABLB ASSOCIATION.)

(Received March 23, 2.15 p.m.) v" '' ' LONDON, 22nd March.

V Speaking in the House of Commons, Mr. J. I. Ma.cpherson, Chief, Secretary ■for Ireland, in reply to •■ Lord Robei-t Cecil, said he had no further information regarding the, murder of the Lord Mayor of Cons. Mr. t TTv. v P, O'Connor asked if shortly af tef "the "'crime" a number 'of soldiers -visited' the"residence 'and insisted on examining the whole of the premises, in spite of the bereavement and of protests. He inquired if it was in order to destroy evidence..

Mr." Macpherson replied reflecting his general resentment at the latter part of the,' question. It "was a monstrous suggestion, he said, to condemn soldiers who were merely acting under ordero. - Mr. MacVeigh (Nationalist, Down County): "A police murder !" . Mr. .Macpherson said: "If the authorities had not entered the scene the accusation would have I/ien made that the British Government had not attempted to detect the murderer because the deceased was a Sinn Feiner. A thorough search was made ;in order to;; discover evidence likely to trace the murderers."