SEARCHING WESTMINSTER ABBEY. MURDER OF A DYNAMITER.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 208, 25 June 1887, Page 1

SEARCHING WESTMINSTER ABBEY. MURDER OF A DYNAMITER.

London, June 20. — The police authorities made strict search yesterday throughout Westminster Abbey for explosives. Colonel Majendie, Chief Inspector of Explosives, and other experts, personally attended and overhauled the vaults. Specially powerful lamps were used, ,but the search proved fruitless, nothing of a dangerous character being found. The police took possession of the Abbey, and everybody was excluded. Two fire engines fully equipped were stationed in the Dean's yard, and on the river, opposite the Houses of Parliament, was stationed a powerful floating engine. The uneasiness as to a dynamite explosion was redoubled when it became known that the body of a man had been found in the canal at Birmingham with the throat cut, and that an American razor had | been discovered in the neighbourhood. A pocketbook was also found, containing receipts for money paid on account of explosives. In the book were receipts showing the paj'menfc of several hundreds of pounds, and also various envelopes bearing addresses in New York. At the inquest nothing was elicited which tended to clear up the mystery, and the jury returned a verdict of " Found dead." The streets of London to-night are impassable. All vehicles have been blocked, and thousands of people are camping in the streets. .