I.R.A. BOMBINGS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 77, 1 April 1939, Page 10

I.R.A. BOMBINGS

SEVERAL EXPLOSIONS

MORE MEN SENTENCED

(Received April 1, 1.20 p.m.)

LONDON, March 31,

At the Old Bailey more, men were dealt with in connection with the Irish Republican Army bomb outrages.

Charles McCarthy and his son Thomas were found not guilty of conspiracy and being in possession of explosives and were discharged.

John Mitchell, John Francis Wharton, Jack Logue, Francis James Burns, Daniel Fitzpatrick, John Ryan, and Daniel McCarthy (another son of Charles McCarthy) were found guilty of conspiracy and were sentenced to terms of imprisonment of from three to four years. Evidence was given that Logue was born in April, 1921, and Burns in June, 1922.

Three more bomb explosions occurred early this morning in Birmingham, Liverpool, and Coventry, but the damage was negligible apart from broken windows and nobody was injured. All the explosions are attributed to the Irish Republicans.

A man in Birmingham collapsed and died of heart failure today after an explosion near his house. Two bombs exploded in the centre of Liverpool. A constable picked up a third and hurled it on to the road where it blew a hole. A fourth bomb was found in a shop doorway. This contained enough dynamite to blow out the entire front of a six-storey building under which it was placed: A bomb in Coventry exploded above some petrol tanks, but did not penetrate the surface.