COCOANUT BOMBS FOUND IN HONOLULU LIBRARY.
When a new librarian, Albert Pierce Taylor took charge of the public archives at Honolulu a short time age, he stumbled over an old chest tucked away in a corner. Taylor, a- former newspaper man, wanted to know all about it. The box contained relics of the overthrow of the monarchy, he was told by an assis- . tant; exhibits held for the long-de-layed hearing of claims against the American Government by British subjects imprisoned when Queen Liliuokalani was dethroned. “ But what are these three old coconuts doing in here?” Tavlor wanted lo know, as he rummaged through the trash. No one could answer, and •the librarian was about to toss the aged palm seeds a fray when he took a second thought and telephoned for some army officers. The coconuts were taken carefully out to Port Shatter, and, still more carefully, prized open. Enough dynamite was found in them to have blown the archives building into the extinct crater of Punchbowl. Taylor had unearthed a few of the revolutionists’ home-made bombs.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17527, 2 May 1925, Page 17
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