AIRMAN DROPS BOMBS OVER MINING VILLAGE
FORCED TO PILOT PLANE SEVEN ARRESTS IN U.S.A. United l*.A.—By Telegraph—Copyright Reed 10 a.m. NEW YORK, Thursday. The Illinois State Attorney has announced that Paul Montgomery, a local aviator, has confessed tl he piloted the plane which dropped nine bombs on workers going to the Providence mine on Monday.
lie also named two men who helped him to make the flight. Montgomery added that the men threatened to kill him if he did not carry out the bombing.
The police later arrested Montgomery and James Malone, aviators, and five miners on charges of engineering the bomb attack on Providence, with intent to cripple the mine properties. In the meantime a fire which officials declare to be incendiary in revenge for these arrests, has destroyed the Providence Coal Company’s premises, causing a total loss of £IO,OOO.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1051, 15 August 1930, Page 9
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