Dynamite Outrage in Dublin.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 7074, 21 February 1893, Page 2

Dynamite Outrage in Dublin.

y A diabolical attempt at public intimidation ,b by Borne devilish and incomprehensible ruffian la took place in Dublin on Christmas Eve. As is the clocks were chiming the hour of eleven, lfl and whilst the crowds of happy people, ,s finishing their marketing for the morrow, it were thronging the streets, and the joy- boils it above them were announcing the great festival [i of peace and goodwill to all men, a teriffie y explosion occurred under the very windows o£ e the headquarters of the detective police, e Passers-by were burled to the ground, a man ,t was knocked <if a car he was driving, the a windows of every establishment in the vicinity ,e were shivered to bits, and in the immediate r, vicinity of the concussion walls were cracked i. and pavement torn up as if by a cannon ball, t. Worse than all, when the first great panic had je subsided a mangled mass of clothes and flesh r) on the pavement showed that the explosion ,e had been attended by the death of a human ■a being. At first, so mangl, d and torn about was the body, that some doub' existed as to . whether it was a man or a woman. A cure sory examination proved it to be a man, and! tue first thought of those around {and pro—e bably the vyiab of the father to the thought]* (1 was that the dastardly perpetrator had mot e with the fate he deserved. But unhappily this was not the case. The awfully disfigured , r body was that o£ a young detective officer _ named Synnott, who had been op bis way to o report himself to the department after a long period of illness. Synnott was breathing when picked up, but died almost as soon a© ,i placed on an ambulance. The originator of ” the disaster had got clean away, and bo intense r . was the force of tbo explosion that scarce s j f . trace of the material employed, or the case „• that held it, was revesl -d on the closest exj aminafion of the surroundings, 3 A Dublin correspondent gives the followe ing account of the explosion ; —‘ A most ) desperate and dastardly outrage was com- |. mitted on Saturday night, when an attempt was made to blow up with dynamite or same b other such deadly explosive the detective 0 offices at Exchange Gourt, a building which t is close to the City Hal], and is not » hun- . dred yards from the spot where the explosion t occurred near Mr Cullman's office in tb 0 •t Castle not very long ago. Dame street, ttDC [ 1 the streets adjoining Exchange Gourt down - which there is no thoroughfare, were C r oW dcd ' ■ Wit ’ l who were w?:, bin x in batches singing and playing r iieJode( f n 8 al) | concertinas on their wav is u • ’ bells of Christchurch play ooChristmM Day’, suddenly 3 ust as the cr'. y cloofeß #tr £. mg eleven, a terrific explosion took place, ilt was as if an had J d and the report heard at the most distant parts of t» ie city. The effect of the explosion most startling, not a pane cf glass waa left m the windows of the houses around, and immense crowds rushed towards, the place from which the report proceeded. Exchange Court was soon packed with; people, but batches of police arrived every other minute, and the entire detective force rushed from their depot. The crowds were by degrees removed from the court, and s. i low rumbling noise which eeemed to portend another explosion, caused a stampede. Afc i first everyone’s attention wsa directed to thc> i effects of the explosion on the house* around - , Every pane of glass in the deteeftra- officeei , and the windows of the City Hall was re- > duced to atoms, and the business establish*' : meats around were greatly injured. Meanwhile some members of the crowd and aconstable perceived a dark heap lying close tothe wall, and on stirring it found that it was the mangled remains of a human being. So. torn and bur. ad were the clothes that noone could tell whether it was a woman, or a man, and the most intense excitement prevailed. It was the .body of young deteolive named Synnott. That thooccurrence was not the result of a gas. explosion or a mishap in the electric lighting appliances was apparent from the fact thatl the gas and electric lamps continued burning steadily without the slightest interruptionSome of Synnoi t’e fingers were found near the scene of the outrage yesterday morning, an some of his flesh wap found on the base of '„he window. 1| seems incredible that aryone thoroughly acquainted with the plactj and its customs would have attempted’ to blow up this building. Everything was against the BUMessful carrying out of the intention of the ruffians foul deed. The detectives are expected to report themselves everv night at eleven o clock, and constable?. a t that hour are continually passing along the very path where the explosive was laid, that it seems most, unlikely that any person acquainted with theroutine of tho departments would have attempted to commit the outrage at thatparticular place and time. Synnott. probablykicked the explosive from the side of the* wall. If so, it was a most fortunate act im one way, for bad it exploded in its rest under the window sash, tho entire building, in which; at that time there were about twenty detectives and several other persons, would haves been blown up, ami several lives would undoubtedly have been lost. Several passers-by had-very asxrow escapes. One man, who was. driviag past in a trap, wee knocked off hi© and his horse stabled forward, A boy

aamed Keogh had hie head severely cut by the broken gass. The family of Mr Oianey, the caretaker of the City Hall, were fearfully alarmed, and several of his daughters seemed to have become completely dazed by the explosion. Synnotb wa* twenty-seven years of age, and a native of County Waterford,