Greek Fire in Somers Town

GREEK FIRE IN SOMERS TOWN. - RE-EXAMINATION OF THE PRISONER.

Ellen Denny, aged 40, a tailoress, who gave her address at 2, Churchway, Somers Town, was on Tuesday placed in the dock at the Clerkenwell Police Court, on remand, before Mr. Barker, with having unlawfully in her possession and not giving a satisfactory account of the same, at Somers Town, St. Pancras, a wooden box containing eight tin canisters of Greek fire and phosphorus. The facts of this case have been already reported, and it will be remembered that it was stated that the prisoner had been living with the brother of the Desmonds who were tried at the Central Criminal Court some time since, for attempting to blow up the House of Detention, Clerkenwell, for the purpose of effecting the escape of one of the Fenian leaders. Mr. Superintendent Williamson, of the detective department, Scotland-yard, who watched the case on behalf of the Commissioners of Police, now said, in answer to the magistrate, that he was requested to ask for a remand, as the man Desmond, who had been living with the prisoner, had absconded, and although great efforts had been made to apprehend him, they were as yet unsuccessful. Mr. Alexander, the chief clerk, having read the depositions taken at the last examination, the remand asked for was at once granted.

Source: The Sun and Central Press, Wednesday July 30, 1873, Page 5