"UP THE REPUBLIC!"
I.R.A. Members Sentenced In
London.
SOLDIERS REFUSE TO PLEAD.
(Received 10 a.m.)
LONDON, April 4.
Molly Gallacher, 18, was sentenced to three years in a Borstal for concealing in her rooms explosive material belonging to members of the I.R.A. James McCafferty was sentenced to five years and Daniel McCafferty to four and half years' penal servitude for being in possession of an alarm clock fitted with a timing explosive. The brothers shouted. "Up the Republic!" as they left the dock.
Refusing to plead because they were I.R.A. soldiers, James Connolly, 23, and Francis McGowan, 24, employees of the London Transport Board, were respectively sentenced to six and a half years and seven years, for possessing or controlling a quantity of thermite potassium chlorate and magnesium tape.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 80, 5 April 1939, Page 11
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