A BOMB OUTRAGE
A CONFESSION. [United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.] (Received this day at 8.30. a.m.) NEW YORK, August 14, Illinois State Attorney lias announced that Paul Montgomery a, local aviator, has confessed that he piloted the plane that dropped nine bombs on a, workers gang at Providence mine on .Monday. He also named, two men who helped him to make the flight. .Montgomery added that the men threatened to kill him if he did not carry out the bombing. The police later arrested Montgomery and Janies Malone, aviators, and five miners on charges. The bomb attack on Providence was intended to cripple the mine properties. Meantime a fire, which ,the officials declare to beincendiaiy, in revenge for these arrests, destroyed Providence Coal Company’s premises, a - total loss of ten thousand sterling.
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Hokitika Guardian, 15 August 1930, Page 5
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132A BOMB OUTRAGE Hokitika Guardian, 15 August 1930, Page 5
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