EXTENSIVE SEIZURE OF ARMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1159, 23 August 1882, Page 2

EXTENSIVE SEIZURE OF ARMS.

A Home paper thus details the seizure of arms made at Clerkenwell, for which the mau Walsh, an we have learnt by cable, was sentenced to seven years' penal servitude A grent'seizure of arms and ammunition was made at Glerkenwell on Saturday, June 17th. About 400 Snider r.fles and needle guns with bayonets, 25 i larne esses of six-chambered revolvers, I several of gunpowder' and nearly. / 10,000 rounds' of fully-charged ammunition were discovered in a large stable in Rydon Cresoeot, The mati wlio hired the stable of its pwfler (a Mr jjphupf) for the storage of dry gooaß, 'ia an Irishman of the laboring class, named Walsh. He is nnw undergoing examination at the Clerkenwell Police Court ; but thus far no evidence has been forthcoming to conneot-him with Femanism, or with any other secret society. When lie took the stables at a rent of 10s a week, it was upon the understanding that no I explosives should be brought The boxes in which this " contraband of war' 1 was conveyed were crates of the description usually employed for the removal of crockery and glass, Pur aumn weeks be- . fore .the seizure was made' there were at rumours of an extensive storage : of arms in the neigbourhood; but the information I on which the police acted seems to have I come immediately from Ireland, where g Colonel Henry Brackenbury, recently our ■ military aitache in Paris, Is energetically I organising the detective police upon a new I and, as it may be hoped it'will prove. I efficient bastg. ' ' '' I