A NARROW ESCAPE

Timaru Herald, Volume XIC, Issue 13367, 17 August 1907, Page 5

A NARROW ESCAPE

ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION. A SHOOTINO-BOX WRECKED. Press Aissociation-By Telegraph-Copyright LONDON, August lb. Lord Ashtown, whose life has betn previously threatened, hud a narrow escape from assassination at 2 o'clock yesterday morning. He belicvu; that it was r.oi planned locally, but in West livlaml. where he was under police, protection. He was asleep over the drawing-room in (ilenshiry Lodge, his shooting seat in County Wexford, and tins only other occupants of the lodge weiv tiie gamekeeper, and the hitter's wife and two maid':-. ■ Tin explosion, which was heard ;i. mile away, wrecked the drawing-room, hurled the doors and furniture across the hall, shattered the. window and shutters of Lord" Ashtown's room, and wrecked _ a marble mantelpiece in the. bedroom. 'The curtair.ii and carpet in the drawing-room broke into (lames which were quickly extinguished. Th.< miscreants had placed a charge of power in a.specially made iron frame, intended to increase ill? force of the explosion, on the drawing-room window sill, and fragments of the 'metal were found with three, fuses, each burnt. Sacks saturated with paraffin were hurled after the explosion into the drawing-room.- A ladder, too short to reach Lord Aslitown's window, wa.s found below shattered. No clue, to the perpetrators of thti outrage has been discovered. Lord Ashtown is the leading spirit in the Irish Unionist' Alliance, which publisher a., montli'v. list of political outrages and extracts from agitators-" speeches •