BOMBS AT LEIXLIP

LEINSTER LEADER 12 February 1916

BOMBS AT LEIXLIP

RESULT OF EXAMINATION

A military expert has examined the explosives and bombs found concealed in a drain at Leixlip on Wednesday last. The large quantity of the former mainly consisted of gelignite, a very high explosive of the dynamite class, the gun-powder and smokeless powder in tins. There were 9 bombs, constructed from small one-quart tins with handles, filled with sharp pieces of iron and heads of bolts, packed around a gelignite cartridge into which was inserted a detonator attached to a few inches of safety fuse.

Experienced officers consider these bombs highly dangerous and likely to cause widespread destruction of life. The bombs were of very recent construction, the tins not being rusted in any way. It is, of course, perfectly obvious says the expert that they were not intended for the destruction of fish, as has been suggested. They have been removed to Dublin Castle.