ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8512, 17 August 1907, Page 5

ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION.

AN imSM. JKOBLEMANffi ©ANGER.

iLQNDON, August ils. Lord Aditown had a narrow escape from assassination at 2 o'clock yesterday morning. He believes the attempt was planned, not locally, but in the West of Ireland, where he was under police protection. His Lordship was asleep in a room over the drawing-room at Glens'hiry Lodge, his shooting seat in County Wexford.

The only •other occupant of the lodge were a gamekeeper and the latter's wife, and two maids. An explosion, which was heard ;B mile away, wrecked the drawingroom, hurled doors and furniture across the hall, shattered his lordship's window-shutters, and wrenched a marble mantelpiece in the bedroom from the wall.

The curtains and .carpet in the drawing-room broke into' flames, which were quickly extinguished. The miscreants had pilaced a charge of powder on the drasriing-room win-dow-sill.

Fragments of a metal pot, in a specially made iron frame, which was intended to increase the force of the explosion, were found, with three fuses, each of which was burnt.

Sacks saturated with paraffin were 'twirled, after the explosioß, into the .4. ladder, too short to te&sh Lord Ashtown's window, was found below, shaibtered.

No .-clue as to the culprits has been discovered.

Lord Ashtown is a leading spfeiit of the Irisls Unionist Alliance, which publishes 3 monthly list of political outrages md extracts from agitators speeches,