ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8896, 16 August 1907, Page 2

ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION.

Tress Association—Copyright. London, August 15. • Lord Ashtown, who was mentioned in a cable on June 1-lth, had a narrow escape from assassination at 2 o’clock yesterday morning. Ho believes it was planned, not locally, but in the West of Ireland, where ho is under police protection. His lordship was asleep over the drawing room in Glonshiry Lodge, ills shooting seat in the County of Wexford. The only other occupants of the Lodge wore the gamekeeper and the latter’s wife and two maids. Tho explosion was hoard a mile away. It wrecked tho drawing room, hurled the doors and furniture across the hall, shattered iiis lordship’s window shutters, and wrenched a marble mautlepioce in the bedroom from tho wall. The curtains, carpet, and drapings of tho room- broke into flames, which ■ were quickly extinguished. The miscreants ;{ had placed a charge of powder on the drawing room window-sill. Fragments of a metal pot in a specially made iron frame, in tended to incroaso'tho force of the explosion, wore found with three fuses, each burnt. Sacks saturated with paraffin were hurled after the explosion into tho drawing room. A ladder, too short to reach Lord Ashtown’s window, was found below, shattered. Ho clue has been discovered. Lord Ashtown is the leading spirit of the Irish Unionist Alliance, which publishes a monthly list of political outrages and extracts from agitators’ speeches.