I.R.A. BOMBINGS

Greymouth Evening Star, 11 March 1939, Page 7

I.R.A. BOMBINGS

LONG PRISON SENTENCES. [BY CABLE —-PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] (Recd. March 11, 10.30 a.m.) LONDON. March 10. In connection with the Manchester I.R.A. bombings, Patrick Walsh wps found not guilty. Michael Roy Campbell, J ac * Gl ® n "' Dennis Duggan and Patrick O Connell were each sentenced to 20 years penal servitude, Patrick Deviney to 14 years, Mary Glenn to seven years, and John Gavahan to 20 years.

Following the recent bomb outrages in England, Patrick Walsh, ..2, Patrick Deviney, 25, John Broderick. 32, Michael Roy Campbell, 21, Jack Glenn, 23, Denis Duggan, 33, and Patrick O'Connell were charged, at Manchester, on January 1&, under, the Explosives Substances Act, with being in possession of certain explosives and materials for making explosives “in such circumstances as. to give- rise to the reasonable suspicion that they did not have possession for a lawful object." Glenn protested that they were not associated with the explosions. Apparently we were arrested because we- are Irish,” he said. Campbell, on leaving the dock, shouted. “I must pretest against the English occupation of Ireland.”

Mary and Nora Glejin, sisters, were charged at Manchester on January 23, with unlawfully possessing a barrel of potassium chlorate, a hundredweight of black iron oxide, two Mills bombs, 49 sticks of gelignite, 10 electric detonators, and an alarm clock fitted with an electric connection. Later. John Gavahan was arrested, and. on February 4. all the accused were charged with conspiring to cause an explosion in Manchester. A message received yesterday stated that Broderick and Nora Glonn had been discharged, owing to insufficient evidence.