“Sinn Fein Volunteers were to blow up Drumcondra Bridge tonight”: 8.00pm

Dublin Metropolitan Police Telephone

Mountjoy Station of Origin Date 25 4 1916 Received at 8.00pm Sent at 8.05pm

From SS Hall To Chief Superintendent

John Lang 29 Prison Cottages, warden in Mountjoy Prison states he has been informed by an Ex RIC pensioner named Worrell. That he was told the Sinn Fein Volunteers were to blow up Drumcondra Bridge tonight.

Copied to Garrison Adjutant. Phoned to Military Headquarters

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