ARMS FOR IRELAND

Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 27, 31 January 1919, Page 7

ARMS FOR IRELAND

PARCELS SENT BY RAIL

REMARKABLE CASE AT BOW

STREET.

(DMITBD PItBSS ASSOCIATION.—COPTMGHT.)

ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.)

LONDON, 28th January. In a remarkable case heard at Bow street Police Court William Burrow, manager of the Midland Gun Company, Birmingham, and John M'Gr'ath, railway goods clerk, Caraden Town, were charged under the Defence of the Realm Act with dealing in war material without a permit. Sir Archibald Bodkin (senior prosecuting ..counsel to the Treasury), in stating the case for the prosecution, said it was alleged that the defendants were engaged m endeavouring to export material to Ireland. Correspondence which had been serad showed that transactions between the defendants had been going on since March, 1916. The police on 11th January saw M'Grath meet Burrow at Rugby station. The latter put two, parcels aboard the Liverpool train, and handed M'Grath a note, which bore a Liverpool address, and in which was enclosed £100. The police examined the parcels, I which contained twelve revolvers, 12,0C0 rounds of ammunition, and 301b of the explosive amburite. It was stated that the police had searched M'Grath, who was carrying two revolvers and a Sinn Fein membership card. A letter was found; in M'Gafth's house from the Arklow County Irish Volunteers, asking how revolvers and ammunition could be got from Liverpool to Ireland. The proprietor of the Midland Gun Company, in evidence, stated that Burrow had made irregular entries, showing that 50,000 cartridge cases had been consigned to ".M'Grath and Company." He had no knowledge of the transaction. ,