UNREST IN INDIA.
ATTEMPTED BOMB OUTRAGES. A PLOT THAT FAILED. LUCKY ESCAPE OF A MAGISTRATE. Received March 16, 10.30 p.rii. - CALCUTTA, March 16. A picric acid bomb was discovered within a law book sent to Mr Kingsford, when he was chief Magistrate at Calcutta. The bomb was so arranged that upon cutting the string it exploded. Mr Kingsford, upon whose life an attempt was made at Muzafferpore on May 2nd last, did not open the book, believing it *to have been a book he had lent to a friend, until the springs had rusted, which rendered the explosive harmless. The bomb found in the office of the newspaper "Englishman" was obtained froui a Government factory.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3139, 17 March 1909, Page 5
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115UNREST IN INDIA. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3139, 17 March 1909, Page 5
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