ARMS FOR IRELAND

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 108, 31 January 1919, Page 5

ARMS FOR IRELAND

fiEIiIARAKBLE CASE_AT .BOW STREET GUN COMPANY'S MANAGER •'" CONCERNED By TelflEraDb-Piesa Afisociation-Coprrteit (Eec; January 30, 9.40 p.ni.) , '; ; vLondon,* January 28.In a remarkable case hoard at Bow Street Police Court-,.William-, Burrow, manager of the Midland Gun Company, Birmingham, and .John M'Grath, railway goods* clerk, Camdentown, ■ were charged under, the Defence of the Kealm Act'with .dealing in war material without a permit. .. . , Sir .Archibald Bodkic (senior prosecuting counsel to the Treasury), in 6tating the case for the prosecution, said it was alleged that the defendants were engaged in endeavouring >.to export-material to Ireland. Correspondence which had been seized showed :that transactions between the defendants had been going .on since March, 1916. The police on January 11 saw -M'Garth meet Burrow at Kugby station. ..The latter put two parcels aboard the , Liverpool train,. and handed ll'Garjth a note, which'bore.a Liverpool address, and in which was enclosed .£IOO. The police exnmined the parcels, which: contained twelve revolvers, twelve thousand rounds of ammunition, and 301b. of explosive amburite. It was stated that the police had searched "M'Garth, who was carrying two, revolvers and a Sinn .Fein membership' card. A'letter, was found in M'Grath's house from the Arkloiv County Irish Volunteers, asking how revolvers and ammunition could he got from Liverpool to Ireland..... . :-.,'■ The proprietor !,of the Midland Gun Company, in evidence, etated that Burrow had made, irregular entries, showing that fifty thousand cartridge cases had been consigned to "M'Grath and Company." He had no knowledge of the transaction.—Aus.-ljr.Z.; Cable Assn.