BOMB IN THE COAL
WAR RELIC WRECKS ROOM EXPLANATION OF EXPLOSION (Special to THE SUN) CHRISTCHURCH. Friday. A Mills bomb, souvenir of the war. found its w’ay into a coal-box, and eventually wrecked a room and injured Mr. J. W. Gallagher and his j wife. This is the explanation of the explosion, at first thought to have been ; due to a detonator, which occurred i recently in a house in Gloucester \ Street. The bomb had been brought back j from France by Mr. Gallagher, who believed that the charge had been : removed. The bomb was in a tin in i the shed where the coal was kept * and apparently it fell into the coal- | box and was taken indoors and put • on the fire with the coal. Pieces of metal were found after i the explosion and proved .o he parts ;of a bomb. Mr. and Mrs. Gallagher . were both taken to the hospital, and 1 although Mr. Gallagher w*as sooon dis- | charged his wife, who had a piece of » bomb in one foot, was detained for t some time. i
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 774, 21 September 1929, Page 11
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181BOMB IN THE COAL Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 774, 21 September 1929, Page 11
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