FURTHER CHARGES

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 29, 4 February 1939, Page 9

FURTHER CHARGES

BOMB OUTRAGES IN BRITAIN Received Feb. 3, 5.15 p.m. LONDON, Feb. 2. Twelve persons arrested in London, including Charles James Casey, George B. Kane, Daniel Fitzpatrick, Jack Logue, Francis James Burns, John Francis Wharton, and A. Healy, have been additionally charged with conspiring with others at Manchester, Liverpool, Cardiff, and elsewhere in the United Kingdom, to cause explosions. The seven arrested at Manchester on January 18 and the Glenn sis.crs on January 25, have been charged with conspiring to cause an explosion at Manchester. All were remanded. The police read a pro seized during a raid in Oxford Street, calling on exiled Irishmen to unite and compel the British withdrawal from the Irish Republic. The names of the seven men arrested at Manchester are:—Michael Roy Campbell, aged 21. of Belfast; Patrick Deviney, aged 25; Jack Glenn, aged 23: Patrick Walsh, aged 32; Joseph Broderick, aged 30; Denis Dugan, aged 33; and Patrick O'Connell, aged 23. They are charged with “knowingly being in possession of or having under their control six barrels, each containing a hundred-weight of potassium chlorate, a quantity of powdered charcoal. 40 sticks of gelignite, a box of candles, a solidified composition of paraffin wax and potassium chlorate and other substances, in such circumstances as to give rise to reasonable suspicion that they did not have it in their possession for a lawful object.” Mary and Nora Glenn, two sisters, aged 22 and 18 respectively, are charged with unlawful possession of a barrel of potassium chlorate, a hundredweight tjf black iron oxide, two Mills bombs, 49 sticks of gelignite, electric detonators, and an alarm clock fitted with an electric connection.