LUCKY ESCAPE

Hokitika Guardian, 5 August 1932, Page 6

LUCKY ESCAPE

;- r TINS OF EIfPLOSIVES. ON STEAa|er| TEES. ' ; • Press Association— Copyright.) A,' CHRISTCiQjiRpH, August 5. i At-eight this morpidg on the steamer Tees', ..which -is uiu|ergoing overhaul at Lyttelton, .Captain. <YY--'\Anders'On; sfolhid < a large- cigarette tiiijkijibside his cabin • door, on, the bridge; ifft was crammeu • fulL-.of -explosives. fTliere was a device .calculated to! release a spring on the opening'of, the, lidjy -biit although the •captain opened it, (there was -no ex- < plots ion, as the spring: was but clumsily ,set. The tin -was ivra{)ped up and addressed to him,. THer police are irive-ti. gating. : | V, -N'}’ ■

When he saw thej'tirii .Captain Anderson immediately picked it up, unwrapped the paper- and! operied the lid. Then the explosive gelignite wais revealed. 'Startled, Captajn Anderson examined the bomb more closely' and found that the maker had contrived a ; cunning -device to- set off the explosive;-by a movement of the lid of the tin This improvised 'hiechanism luckily*-failed to act. Apparently the trigger'that \Vas designed to release the spring’ was clumsily set. : .‘put thi.liiin, and its danger-'-’Wiiis 1 -'‘contests : aside;Counted guard over it '-’arid 'suiririibned HiA’-police. ' ”A'detective was;|ftiiE§from the Centra) Police--'Station to 'jfiiake investigations. The*’ tiri ' -fras variety of ’ of the ‘size to' hold ,! k%rit ,seV|r|i|^Vii .-cigarettesV-it-watf'Tightly jpack'^cf'^tSS^gelignit'e.