BOMB INCIDENT
Jail For Desperate Criminal I Independent Cable Service.) LONDON, June 19. Richard Ormerod, aged 31, of Lancaster, at the Liverpool Assizes was sent to jail for seven years’ penal servitude. He pleaded guilty to causing a Mills bomb explosion in tlie Lancaster police station. Tlie police gave evidence that when Ormerod was taken to the station and charged with housebreaking he suddenly raised his arm and shouted "Stand back!” Two policemen immediately tackled him and the bomb exploded', smashing the windows and injuring all three men.
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 225, 21 June 1939, Page 9
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88BOMB INCIDENT Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 225, 21 June 1939, Page 9
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