I have received the following letter:—
Green Street Courthouse,
7th April, 1924.
Sir,—I have the honour to inform you, as Speaker of Dáil Eireann, that Henry Coyle, T.D. for Mayo North, was duly convicted before me as Judge Presiding at the April Commission of Oyer and Terminer, Green Street, Dublin, on Friday, the 4th April, of the offence of fraudulently inducing Patrick J. O'Malley to endorse a cheque for £450 with intent to defraud the said Patrick J. O'Malley, and that on this day, the 7th of April, 1924, I passed sentence of three years' penal servitude upon the said Henry Coyle for the offence of which he was so convicted.
I have the honour to be,
Your obedient servant,
Arthur W. Samuels.