BOMB OUTRAGE IN A

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2117, 7 April 1914, Page 5

BOMB OUTRAGE IN A

CHURCH

SUFFRAGETTES SUSPECTED

TWO WINDOWS AND A PEW Slf AtBBED

By TokerajtU-Ites AeoeeiaUen-Copjriftht • •■'■■ ■';' ■ r LOtttlon, April 6.' An hour and α-holf after Evensong at tho Chnrch <rf Saint Muitm's-ii>4hG Fields tiw police heard nil explosion, and found in tho southern aisl« pieces of bomb and the remounts of n rublsrr kifi. Two stained glass windows ami a pew wero shattered. ' 'Suffragettes are suspected of the- outrage.,; , -..- CHORCE FILLED WITII; DENSE BUCK SJIQKE. . , : ' ■ (Eee. April 6, lO.ilfi p,jn,) ' ''\ ■ korulqn, April 6. . St. : Martin's Church was filled with denso'.smoke after tlio explosion, and the Fire Brigade was summoned!. The pew below the pn.tj>it was blown up. Tho bfraib exactly resembled that which was used •at St. Joan s Chapel, Westminster, Jast mouth. Dnring tho sorvico tlio occupants of the pew were a prominent church rawfnber and an unknown svoiiiim, , »S<-'<l about thirty-fivo. A caftdlo was inserted in tho lid oi the canister, which was placed.under n seat, apparently during the eighty minutes boforo tho contact with' tho gunpowder. Some accounts staco thftt tho canister was wrapped in Saffragotto literature, R«d contained a clockwork meehan-

"Jtaos" end Sytaej' "Sot" B«fricce, (Rec. April 6, 5,30 p.m.) London, April 5. Some ' Suffragette militants who sowflhfc to distribute Suffragist literature among flaxmill girls at Blackpool, Cork, wero roughly handled. Tlk> girls assaulted tlicm with tfcoir fists, i»ro their hats off, and . pttlfed their liaii down.