POLICE RAIDS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 25 January 1939, Page 7

POLICE RAIDS

HOUSES IN MANCHESTER DOCUMENTS SAID TO BE SEIZED j i * RECENT BOMBING OUTRAGES lU.P.A. B.v Electric Telegraph—Copyright) ■ (Received 25th January, 10.5 a.m.) i LONDON, 24th January, j Thirty detectives and ten car loads j of police carried out massed raids on j houses in Manchester throughout the night. It is believed they seized docu-: i ments relating to bombing. Thomas Kelly, tobacconist, was re- ■ ] manded till Ist February at Liverpool, charged with being in possession of four lewt kegs of potassium chlorate, for an unlawful purpose. He was 1 alleged to have received them from John Healy, an Irishman who was re-; manded in Custody at Bow Street till [ 26th January on a charge of possessing I for unlawful purpose two tons of potas- i sium chlorate, and a ton of black oxide ; of iron. The police in evidence stated that the ■ kegs were not found in Kelly’s posses- ■ sion but traces of potassium adhered to i bags found in his premises. Mary and Nora Gleen, sisters, aged 22 and 18, were remanded at Manchester to-day on a charge of being unlaw- j fully in possession of a barrel of potassium chlorate, a hundredweight of • black iron oxide, two Mills bombs, 49 < sticks of gelignite, 10 electric detona- * tors and an alarm clock fitted with an i electric connection.