THEFT OF GELIGNITE

Greymouth Evening Star, 9 May 1930, Page 4

THEFT OF GELIGNITE

EXPLODED IN‘STREET. BIRKENHEAD, March 22. Henry Wainwright (23), of Vernon Avenue, Seacombe, was committed to the Liverpool Quarter Sessions for trial on a charge—heard here to-day —of breaking and entering a powder magazine and stealing 81b of gelignite valued at Bs, on March 11, belonging to the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board. A watchman said that on March 12 he found that the door of the, magazine had been forced open, and he informed the police. Constable Barber said at 10.35 on March 12, having heard a. number of loud reports, he went to the junction of Tabor Street and Demesne Street, Seacombe, -where he found that, a sub-

stance had been placed on the tram lines to explode as a traincar went over it. He searched the road and picked up a handful of gelignite, which had been placed on tho (rack at. inteivals of five yards. Thomas Hector Jackson, a marine store dealer, .said that Wa.inwright

came to his store at Seacombe and asked him if he wauled to buy any explosives. He replied: “What the h good are they io me?” He afterwards informed the police. Acting-Sergeant Astbury said that Wainwright, when interviewed, said, “I did not. break into the magazine. I hid the explosives for a fellow that took them. J will never give him away." Mr A. C. Shepherd, for the prosecution, said that all the missing gelignite had now been found or accounted fnv