THE DYNAMITE CRUSADE STOPPED.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 161, 31 March 1916, Page 1 (Supplement)

THE DYNAMITE CRUSADE STOPPED.

' In the begininng of ISSo the general ; unrest in England was increases by tho 1 renewed activity of the miscreant disseminators of dynamite. On January ' 2, at 9 p.m., an explosion of that deadly compound took place on the Underground Railway, the bomb being ap- | parently thrown from a train going 1 westwards from King's Cross; it resulted in the wrecking of a passing , train, anr. 1 a severe shaking to several men and women. Far more daring acts occurred on the 24th, when simultaneI ous explosions took place in the Houses j of Parliament and in the Tower of j London at about 2 p.m. At the former j building a suspicious looking bag was observed by a lady jn the crypt, and she at once gave information to the police. B.C. Cole promptly rushed into tho Chapel and seized' the package, but was compelled to drop it in Westminster Hall, where it blew a hole in the floor 1 feet deep, shattered all the windows, and severely injured the plucky policeman and his companion, I'. C. Cox. A few minutes afterwards nu explosion took place just within tho entrance cf the Hostie of Commons, | which tore off doors, excavated l thf j tioor, and did great damage to the roof ■ and panelling. At the Tower a parcel, j w hicli was deposited in the old Ban<|i;eting Room, went off and injured I that room and the Council Boom, i urst i the rifles stored there, hurt some girls I and children, and caused' a lire, which I was promptly extinguished. The authoii ties acted with the utmost promptitude, and by immediately closing the gates secured a man called Cunningham. An accomplice—Burton was arrested some days later, and when they were , put on trial the evidence went to show taht they were probably concerned in 1 th<> explosion in St. James' Square, and certainly in that near Gower ' Sti'oet Station. On May IS they were sentenced to penal servitude for life; I and aero the dynamite crusade stopped.