BOMB IN FIRE GRATE.
WAR. SOUVENIR EXPLODES.
RECENT INCIDENT ; RECALLED.
[by telegraph.—own correspondent.} CHBISTCHURCH. Friday.. Although explosives or detonators in thai coal were blamed at the time for an explosion in a house in Gloucester Street* in which Mr. J. k W. Gallagher arid hi# wife were injured, it is now stated that! the explosion, was actually caused by » Mills bomb which fell into the coal and exploded when it was put on the fire. Mr. Gallagher had a Mills bomb which' ho had brought back from the war as a souvenir and which ho had been told wai quite safe because the charge had been taken out. The bomb was in a tin in > the shed where the coal was kept and apparently it fell into the coalbox and was taken indoors and pub on the fire with the coal.
The explosion was particularly violent, burying pieces of metal in the wall These pieces of metal were found subsequently to be parts of a bomb. Mr. and Mrs. Gallagher were both taken to the hospital and although Mr. Gallagher was soon discharged his wife, who had a piece of bomb in one foot, was detained for soma lime.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20366, 21 September 1929, Page 10
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199BOMB IN FIRE GRATE. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20366, 21 September 1929, Page 10
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