The Warwickshire Herald. — 1893-11-30 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

SUPPOSED ATTEMPT TO BLOW UP A DUBLIN BARRACK.  MYSTERIOUS MURDER.  The Prernsan's Journal says that on Sunday morn• ing a discovery of a somevil.at sensational character was made in the precincts of the Aldboro' Barracks in Glaucester-street, one of the branch depots of the Army Service Corns, and one of the best-known military &pots in Dublin. The imposing building is one of the landmarks of old Dublin. It is situated in a glcomy portion of the city. The discovery made within the barracks was that of a box of a StispicioU4 character. It was observed first by Dine_ _ . _  of the soldiers on duty, and was in the form of a tin box, to which a fuse about two feet in length wa, attached The end of the fuse sliewed traces of having been ignit d, but having been ( xtintinguislied in seine way. The box and its contents weighed about one pound. The soldier imme• diately carried his find to his suterior clhcer, and an es.:mination of the contents of the box was made. 'it lids it was a quantity of saturated material retubling sawdust, and a cap of the detonator typv. To the latter the fuse was attached. The 'lace where the box was found was near a wall of st,out EMI) feet in height which separates the tariacks front Gloucester-street, whence it might eysily have b. en thrown over. Mr John Mallon EA' the place and commenced an investigatbn. The affair has created some excitement in military circus. Rumours had, it is stated, prevailed for several days that explosions might be inflected, and all the public buildings in Dublin were caretully guarded.  A man named Patrick Reed, a bricklayer, was found dead on Monday night in Cardiff-lane, off Sir John Rogerson'. Quay. Dublin. He was taken to Sir Patrick Dun's Hospital, a here on examination it was found that he had been shot with a revolver. Reed was well known to the police as bting connected with a society which for some time past has catlike' the authorities serious trouble in Dublin. No :units have yet been made, but it is unch rstood Mal. the pelice are in posse,sion of a clue to this and other outrages which have taken place within the past 12 'malls. The contents of the box found at Ahlborough Military Barracks have been analysed awl found to be dynamite. The shooting of reed has led to suspicion that he was in vi.ti cf secrets which it was feared he might ivulge. He *.vas known to have been that day in the company of a man named Sheridan, now under arrest fur having explosives in his possession. - -•  Another cccount ..ays: The police have discovered the shortly M fore Reed was found lying in Cardiff. lai:e, three men, who appeared to be engaged in an angry discussion, passed through Great Brunswickstreet, in the direction of Sir John Rogerson's Quay. Shortly after they entered Cardiff-lane they stopped beside a lamp-post, and immediately two shots son discharged. Two of the men then ran away, and Reed, who was the third man, staggered and tell. He was lifted up by a police-constable whose attention was attracted by the shots and roNveyed to Sir Patrick Dun's Hospital, where his mily was afterwards identified by his brother and 0151 or.  On Monday, in the Northern Police-court, Dublin, Wore Mr. Keys, Q.C., a young man named Walter Sheridan, a compositor, was charged by Sergeant Carroll with having had early that morning in his pe.isession six detonators,supposed to be loaded with c•lroinate. The accused was in the first instance arrear,' for being ilruhk, lut the sergeant, seeing a bulky parcel in his pocket, searched hint and found the detonators. Shortly before his arrest, which took place in "Henry-street, the sergeant had heard an explosion in Tyrone-place, a very short distance away,and found there a lighted fuse on the ground. the accused raid at the police-station that hi, had knight the detonators for the purposes of his trade, to make experiments with. He informed the sergeant that he was taking out a patent, and when he was asked for what, he replied for bolding his tongue and minding his own looniness. At the police-court he raid he had bought the detonators from a man who was 'Mewing them round as curiosities. The prisoner was remanded for a week.