GAOL FOR SEVEN YEARS
Man Who Threw Bomb In Police Station United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, June 19. Richard Ormerod, aged thirty-one, of Lancashire, was sent to prison for seven years’ penal servitude at the Liverpool Assizes after pleading guilty to causing a Mills bomb explosion in the Lancaster police station. The police gave evidence that when Ormerod was taken to the .station to be charged with l ouse-breaking, he suddenly raised his arm and shouted, Stand back! ’ Two policemen immediately tackled him, but the bomb exploded, smashing the windows and injuring all three men.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVI, Issue 21377, 21 June 1939, Page 8
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96GAOL FOR SEVEN YEARS Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVI, Issue 21377, 21 June 1939, Page 8
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