Explosion in Beresford Place 

News from 100 years ago 07.March.1923 - Evening Herald 
Practicialy on the stroke of 6 o'clock this moring the sound of a terrific explosion reverberated all over the centre of the city, and it was subsequently ascertained that the block of buyidlings situated in the cresent in front of the ruins of the Custom House had been blown up. A member of the C.I.D., Mr P.J Kelly who was on the premises, was blown to pieces, and another member of the same force, constituting a small guard, is suffering from shock. 

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