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    1. 29-4-1912 From the Times.
    2. Mary Heaphy
    3. 29-4-1912 From the Times. Bomb Outrage in Tipperary Dublin April 28th. 1912 Early on Sat. morning another bomb outrage was committed in Tipperary. A short time ago, a farmer named Pratt complained that the roof had been partly blown of his house by a bomb. In the present case the house of John Doheny, farmer and district councillor , at Ardcroney was damaged. Mr. Doheny, his wife, his family and some workmen were awakened at 2 O'Clock in the morning by a loud noise, which Doheny afterwards described as resembling a quarry blast. The glass in one of the windows was broken and some articles in the room near it were thrown down. Doheny ran outside and found a second bomb on a windowsill. He seized the burning fuse and threw it away, thus preventing another explosion. Soon afterwards a thatched outhouse took fire as result of the explosion, but some neighbours who had been awakened by the noise extinguished the fire before much damage was done. Mr. Doheny who is popular in the district is at a loss to account for the outrage. Later in the day the police arrested a farmer named Hugh Hagan, a relative of Doheny, and charged him before a magistrate in Nenagh with having caused the explosion. District-Inspector Price said that when he visited Mr. Doheny's house he found pieces of the exploded bomb in the yard. It had been made of the box or centre-piece of a cartwheel filled with powder and pieces of iron, plugged with wood and filled with iron. He had taken the unexploded bomb to pieces, and found that it contained half a pound of coarse blasting powder. It had been wrapped in canvas which had been tied with twine. On the pump near the house he found a threatening notice which read as follows:"Notice.-Take notice that I require you on behalf or the rightful owner to give up to him the farm in Curravala that you grabbed. If not, mark the consequences. If I have to call again, the buttons of your coat won't be got for the inquest.-Captain Moonlight. To Mr. J. Doheny, Ardcroney. The accused who protested his innocence when arrested and before the magistrate, was, on the application of the police, remanded for a week. Mary

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