BOMB OUTRAGE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22949, 29 January 1938, Page 13

BOMB OUTRAGE

SYDNEY SUBURB CRIME MARRIED COUPLE KILLEO THREE CHILDREN ESCAPE FRONT'OF HOUSE WRECKED By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received January 28, 5.5 p.m.) a SYDNEY, Jan. 28 Two terrific explosions damaged home of Mr. Alfred Ernest Smith, aged 53, at Lidcombe, a suburb of Sydney, early this morning and killed him and his wife, Mary Ann, El. Two bombs were thrown into the frjnt room. Mr. Smith was the organiser of the Meat Workers' Union at the Homebush abattoirs, and the police belietfe that the outrage may have been caused through his activities. The police are of the opinion that/ Mr. Smith was in the act of hurling the bomb out of a window itexploded, as some of his fingers and fragments of his hands were found in, various parts of his bedroom and one finger in the garden'. Frightful confusion confronted the rescuers. The front of the house was wrecked. Mr. Smith's body lay near the door and his wife's was concealed under the debris on the collapsed bed, only her feet protruding. All the furniture was rained.

A strong odour of cordite permeated the other rooms, which were nob greatly damaged.

The other occupants of the house' were the Smiths' two daughters and Bon and a girl friend of Miss Smith, their ages ranging from 11 to 23/ AH were uninjured, but are suffering from severe shock.

Mr. Smith recently was closely identified with two strikes of slaughtermen at the Homebush abattoirs which interrupted the supply of mutton to metropolitan consumers.