RUSSIANS AMOK.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 13332, 26 January 1909, Page 7

RUSSIANS AMOK.

EXTR.VORDINARY AFFAIR IN ENGLAND.

REVOLUTIONISTS SHOOT INDISCRIMINATELY. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, January 24. Two Russian workmeai held up a motor car and seized a bag of _overeigns. and then ran amok at Tottenham and Walthamstow with army revolvers. A crowd gave chase, and the Russians fired indiscriminately, frequently reloading. They killed a policeman and a boy, and on reaching Walthamstow boarded a tram car, and fired at the passengers. The police followed in a motor car, the Russians firing at their pnrsuers. Seeing that their pursuers wero gaining on them, one of them blew his brains out on the road, whilst tho other took refuge in a houso and shot himself mortally. The Russians were employed in a Tottenham factory, and "knew it was the custom of a clerk to bring £100 to the factory to pay the wages.

(Received January 2.5 th, 11.30 p.m.) LONDON, January 35.

Hafeld and Jacob, the authors of the Tottenham outrage, wero members of a Russian revolutionary party, with headquarters in London.

Hafeld shot himself, or, according to another account, was shot by a policeman and captured, while Jacob rushed into a cottage and shut himself in an upper room. He was thrice summoned to surrender, and not receiving an answer, Constable Eagles fired two6„o_s through the door, apparently wounding Jacob. The latter was seen through the opaning between the door and floor, cautiously advancing. The door quietly opened, and Jacob appeared and deliberately aimed the revolver with his left hand, the muzzle resting on his right arm. Constable Eagles was too quick for him and fired, tho bullet entering Jacob's forehead. Jacob rolled over on to a bed, dead, before Eagles reached him.

"The Times" says it is high time to put some more effectual restrictions on the facile entry of alien degenerates. The "Daily News" says tho two brigands escaped "Stolypin'e necktie," and apparently dreamed of acclimatising their methods in Great Britain. Th© experiment will hardly be repeated.

All the newspapers hope that the con_table's widow and the relatives of the boy killed, and the con_tabl__ who were wounded, will be tail-ably remembered. The sufferers are progressing well.