Enpiosives on Line.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 70, 22 November 1913, Page 5

Enpiosives on Line.

GREEN LANE SENSATION.

AN OLD MAN CHARGED.

[Per Press Association.]

Auckland, November 21

An old man, Joseph Davis, aged /5 years, who was arrested yesterday

afternoon in connection with the re-

ported finding of gelignite at the Green Lane railway station, was charged at the Police Court this morning that about Wednesday he placed two plugs of gelignite with detonators and fuse attached at Green Lane station.

Chief-Detective McMahon asked for a week’s remand, and Mr Singer, who appeared for accused, did not oppose the application, but asked that bail he allowed.

Mr Cuttcn, S.M.. refused bail, butstated that if any exceptional circumstances arose respecting prisoner’s health further application could be made.

Accused was in a fainting condition t when charged, and had to be accommodated with a chair and given water to drink,.

Joseph Davis was the man who told the sensational story that he kicked live plugs of gelignite off the railway at Green Lane just before the night express passed last Thursday night. He is a hawker, and the circumstance leading to his arrest was that the gelignite he professed to have found on the railway line last week, and the two plugs found in a lavatory at the Green Lane station last night, were hound together with the same peculiar kind of string, which the detectives could not get matched in town.