HOME-MADE BOMB
FOUND IN BANK BUILDING A CLERK’S DISCOVERY. j [Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Doc. 23. A sensational discovery was mad a by an employee of the legal firm of Hesketh, Richmond and Clayton, in the Bank of Australasia building at the corner of Queen Street and Wyndham streets, this morning, when he went to work at 9 o’clock. Tn an upstairs corridor he saw something alight in a small basket containing what looked like a parcel. Lifting the burning parcel out he put it on the lead-covered stairs and tried to put the flames out iwith his handkerchief. | Then ho ran into a neighbouring (lavatory to get some water, and in the brief interval he heard an explosion outside like a shot out of a gun. When the clerk got back to the corridor there was a smell of gunpowder and a lot of smoke about. Where the burning basket had stood there was a fair sized tin with a piece of fuse attached to it. Scattered about were its contents of tin. nails, bolts, screw’s and some road metal. It was rather an amateurish sort of bomb, but a bomb it was, and had anyone been in the corridor at the time he wduld have got a nasty smack from some of the flaying missiles. No one has the slightest idea as to how the home-made bomb got into the corridor, ■ or what it was intended to do.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19478, 24 December 1925, Page 11
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240HOME-MADE BOMB Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19478, 24 December 1925, Page 11
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