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I.R.A. OUTRAGES

FURTHER SENTENCES PASSED ON ACCUSED DISCOVERY OF EXPLOSIVES AND MATERIALS. BROTHERS REFUSE TO PLEAD. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. (Received This Day, 10.30 a.m.) LONDON. April 4. Molly Gallacher, aged 18, was sentenced to three years detention in a Borstal institution for concealing m her rooms explosive material belongings to members of the I.R.A. James McCafferty was sentenced to five years and Daniel McCafferty to 41. years’ penal servitude for having been in possession of an alarm clock fitted with a timing explosive. , The brothers shouted: "Up with the Republic!” as they left the dock. Refusing to plead because they were I.R.A. soldiers, James Connolly, 23. and Francis McGowan, 24, employees of the London Transport Board respectively were sentenced to 61 years and seven years’ imprisonment for possessing or controlling a quantity of thermite, potassium chlorate and magnesium tape. _____

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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 April 1939, Page 5

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140

I.R.A. OUTRAGES Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 April 1939, Page 5

I.R.A. OUTRAGES Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 April 1939, Page 5

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