MUNITION ROBBERY
How Armed Men Raided Phoenix Park Fort DUBLIN, January 3. Seven men were remanded at the District Court, which was strongly guarded, on charges of breaking into the Phoenix Park magazine and stealing ammunition. It was stated that a dozen soldiers .occupied the fort behind wooden gates, which had iron bars. The captain was absent when the bell rang at 8.45 p.m., and the corporal who ■ answered it was confronted by a cyclist who presented, a revolver and exclaimed, “Stick ’em up, or I’ll blow out your brains.” A group of men rushed out of hiding, seized the corporal and marched/ him to the guardroom, collecting a passing private on the way. The pair were confined to the room. Other members of the guard were found sitting round a fire. The raiders, augmented by new arrivals, made the corporal disarm the magazine sentry. The raiders made a prisoner of the captain immediately he returned. Lorries then drove into the fort, the whole of the telephone wires having already been cut. The ammunition was loaded into the lorries and rushed off.
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Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 86, 5 January 1940, Page 9
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182MUNITION ROBBERY Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 86, 5 January 1940, Page 9
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