A similar crime was attempted in London on Saturday night.
A policeman detected a man acting auspiciously outside a large timber yard in Finsbury. When he tried to arrest the man, he was assaulted by a gang. The men then ran away, but one of them was caught after a long chase. He proved to be a young Irish student named William Robinson. The gang had left behind them some cotton-wool and spirit and two revolvers. As Robinson proved to be a member of the Simi Fein organiza- tion in this country, the police searched the offices of that body. The Speaker felt it necessary to close the public galleries of the House of Commons, and to restrict the admission of visitors even to the Outer Lobby. Barricades were erected in Downing Street to protect the Prime Minister's house. We are reminded of the period of the dynamite outrages, nearly forty years ago. There is nothing original in the methods of Irish criminals. Early on Tuesday morning a bomb explosion occurred in a City warehouse in Upper Thames Street, but it is said that the Sinn Feiners had nothing to do with this strange occurrence.
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