A STORY OF A BOMB.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 458, 17 March 1909, Page 7

A STORY OF A BOMB.

MAGISTRATE'S ESCAPE. MECLECTED TO OPEN THE PARCEL. EXPLOSIVE IN LAW BOOK. , InT Tdr.lillAl-11-l-KltS.'i ASSOCIATION- COM It I JUT.I (Rec. March 16, 10.7 p.m.) Calcutta, March 16. A picric acid bomb was discovered within a law book which was sent somo time ago to Mr. Kingsford when ho was Chief Magistrate at Calcutta. The bomb was so arranged that, upon cutting tho string, a detonator, charged with fulminate of mercury, would havo exploded. Mr. Kingsford, who was the object of the Muzaffarpur explosion, did not open the parcel—believing it to be a book which he had lent to a friend—until the springs of the mechanism had rusted and rendered tho cxplosivo harmless. Tbo bomb which was found in tho office of tho newspaper "Englishman" was obtained from a Government factory. [In February, 1908, Mr. Kingsford, a magistrate at Calcutta, sentenced the printers of two seditious native journals to severe terms of imprisonment and the payment of fines. For this action he incurred tho hostility of the Anarchist societies, which determined to compass his death. On April 30 occurred a very grave bomb outrage at MurzaO'arpur. Late in the evening, as two ladies, Mrs. and Miss Kennedy, wero leaving tho club in a carriage, a bomb was flung at them. It exploded with terrible effect, inflicting mortal injuries on both the ladies. Two- young Bengalis were the perpetrators of this crime. One of them shot himself as he was being arrested; tho other, Kudiram Bose, was tried, convicted, and sentenced to death. It appeared that ho had intended to kill Jfr. Kingsford, and had mistaken the Kennedys' carriage for that of the magistrate.]