WELL-LAID PLANS.
SAVED BY SHORT LADDER.
(Received 7.35 a.m.) I
LONDON, August 15. It appears that the miscreants had placed, a charge of powder on the draw-ing-room window sill-
The fragments of a metal pot in a specially made iron frame, intended to increase the force of the explosion, were also found, with three fuses attached to each.
Burning sacks, saturated with paraffin, were hurled, after the explosion, into the drawing-room.
A ladder, too short to reach Lord Ashtown's window, was found below shattered.
No clue has so far been discovered as to the perpetrator of the outrage. Lord Ashtown believes that it was planned, not locally, but in the West of Ireland, where he was under police protection.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 195, 16 August 1907, Page 5
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