DASTARDLY OUTRAGE.
AT CONSTABLE BLACK’S HOUSE. FRONT VERANDAH WRECKED. [run press association. —copvright.] GREYMOUTH, This Day. j Another dastardly bomb outrage oc-. etirred at two o’clock this morning, Constable. Black’s bouse in u’Grady street Blaketown, being blown up. | A charge was placed near the front door and fired by a fuse. i The front door was blown open and j a bole torn in the verandah. j The windows were smashed, a quantity of glass falling on a bed where the Constable and his wife were sleeping. No one was injured. Mrs Black is suffering from severe shock and concussion.
The explosion took place at the same hour of the day as that of Senior Sergeant Simpson’s house on May 29th. There is great consternation in town at this outrage. Government offered £2OO reward for information of the first outrage, but there are no clues so far.
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Hokitika Guardian, 24 July 1919, Page 3
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147DASTARDLY OUTRAGE. Hokitika Guardian, 24 July 1919, Page 3
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