SINN FEIN RISING.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXXVI, Issue 7719, 13 May 1916, Page 3

SINN FEIN RISING.

PLOT TO KIDNAP SIR EDWARD CARSON. A NARROW ESCAPE. (Received This Day, 9 a.m.) LONDON, May 12. The “Daily Telegraph’s” Parliamentary correspondent states that evidence exists that the Sinn Feiners plotted to kidnap Sir Edward Carson from Mr Ronald McNeill’s residence, Cashendall, on Easter Monday, but the plot miscarried owing to Sir Edward Carson’s inability to visit Ireland through the shortness of the Easter recess. SKEFFINGTON’S DEATH. WIDOW’S STORY. * (Received This Day 9 a.m.) LONDON, May 12. Mrs SkefTington states that on the day following her husband’s death the military surrounded the house, fired through the front windows, and then burst in, placing herself, her son of seven, and maid under arrest. They then ransacked the house and removed books and papers.