GAME WITH EXPLOSIVES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21774, 13 October 1932, Page 13

GAME WITH EXPLOSIVES

CHILDREN’S LUCKY ESCAPE l

“ You are lucky that you and all the children in the school were not blown up,” ,declared the, chairman (Sir Dudley. Drurhinoi/d) to : Morgan Rees Davies, a labourer, of Pantygleision, Ilanllawddog, who was fined £5 at Carmarthon, Wales, on June 11, for keeping high explosives in his house without a police certificated It was stated that Davies’s niece, aged eight,’ took four plugs df gelignite, :four detonators, and a fuse from tin boxes, placed them in her school food-tin and took them to Yspitty School. The child put the box containing the explosives on a window sill in the school porch, and during playtime gave the explosives to her brother and three other scholars, all under 13, who went to a spot near the school and fired some of them. There, were loud explosions, and the schoolmaster gave information to the police. Davies, it was stated, handed to the police more gelignite, which he kept in tins in the kitchen. He said that he used the explosives in his work to sink wells. He did not know a police certificate was necessary.