The Telegram. — 1893-12-05 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

MYSVCRIOUS MURDER.  On Sunday ihutuinK, a discovery of • sensa. tumuli uature was u.soe in the precincts of this Aldborough Barracks in Gloucester Street, one of the branch depots of the Army Seivice Coqo, and One of the best known military der "izs in Dublin. The building is situated in a eloomy portion of the city. The disc...tray was made within the lialracks of a hox of a auspicious character. It was observed brit by one of the soldiers on duty and was in the form of a tin sax, to which • fuse alxmt two feet in length was attached. The end, of the fuf,e showed shms of having been gaited, but had been extinguiThed. The soldier carried his find to his superior officer, and au examination of the contents was made. Within was a quantity of saturited material iesembling sawdu,t and • cap of the detonator type. To the latter the fuse was attached. The place where the box was found has hear a wall, which separates the barracks from Gloucester Street, whence it might easily have . .  een thrown over: The contents of the box bare been analysed, and found to he dynamite. A corupieior named Sheridan was ei ought tip on Monday under the Hxplorives Act charged with baying six detonators in his possession. Shortly ly-fore Sheridan's arreet the sergeant had heard an explosion in Tyrone Place, a short distance away flora where the prisoner was found, and on going there diacovered a liglited fuse on the greund; The accuied said he li,tl bought the detonators fur the pm pose of hie trade, to maim experimenta. lit informed the sergeant that he wad taking out a patent, and when asked for what purpose replied for holding his tongue and minding his own butiteem fie was remanded. . . .  .„ A labuitier named Patrick Reed, a bricklayer, was found dead in Cardiff Lane. Dublin on Mom day night. He wan taken to Sic Patrick Dona', Hospital, where on examination it was found thee he had been shut with a revolver. Reed was wellknown to the police as being connected with a society which for some time past has caused the authorities serious trouble in Dublin. The polies have discovered that shortly before Reed wan found lying in Cardiff Lane three men, who appeared to be engaged in angry diacussme, passed through Great Brunswick Street. Shortly after they entered Cardiff Lane they stopped beside a lamp-met, and immediately afterwards two shuts were fired. Two of the wen then ran away, and Reed, who was the third, staggered and fell. The shooting of Reed has led to the ans. picion that be was in pos,essiou of secrete which it was feared he might divulge. On Tuesday afternoon, an inquest was held on the body. The evidence generally did not tend to throw light upon the circumstances of the murder, and Um jury returned a verdict that death was due to • gunshot wound inflicted by some person or per. suns unknown. A solicitor appeared to represent a man named John Mearns, who had been arrested on suspicion with being concerned in the insider, In the evening Mearn and others, who were asked to come to the Castle to answer certain questions, were allcwed to leave after the police had made the neceezary inquiries. The nievading excitement was heighweed on Tuesday afteruoen, when it was announeed that au infernal machine bad been found ekes to the Broadstone terminus of the Midland and Great Western Railway. The discovery was made by a little boy, who saw the canister under a bridge. The case was opened, when it was found to contain four tubes with what appeared to be deter'. eters.