DESPERATE ACT
MAN WHO EXPLODED BOMB IN POLICE STATION. SENT TO PENAL SERVITUDE FOR SEVEN YEARS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received This Day, 9.25 a.m.) LONDON, June 19. Richard Ormedor, aged 31, of Lancashire, has been sent to prison for seven years’ penal servitude. At the Liverpool Assizes he pleaded guilty to causing a Mills bomb explosion in the Lancaster Police Station. The police gave evidence that when Ormerod was taken to the station, charged with housebreaking, he suddenly raised an arm and shouted: “Stand back!” Two policemen immediately tackled him, when the bomb exploded, smashing windows and injuring all three men.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 June 1939, Page 5
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101DESPERATE ACT Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 June 1939, Page 5
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