HOUNDSDITCH VICTIMS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1008, 24 December 1910, Page 5

HOUNDSDITCH VICTIMS.

AN IMPRESSIVE FUNERALi \

Bj-TclesrajU—Press Association—Odiyrleht,, . . London, December 22. .An impressive service was,held in St. Paul's Cathedral in connection, with the . funeral .of: the. three policemen' murder-: ed by the Russian burglars at Hounds- 1 ditch. :■ 1 ,■

Mr. E. W. Wallington, C.H.G., pri- ;• vate' secretary to Queen Mary, represented the "King. .. The City! and Metropolitan Mayors, Mr. Winston' Churchill (Homo Secretary) and Sir Edward Reid lvore present. ■■■■■' ■, .The three colons were placed at tho ,' Iliad of the nave. .■ The service endedwith the, hymn/ "Rock of Ages.'V-.Many . - of the audience were overcome.' : ' * The streets, were crowded, many. Jews' being among ,the spectators/v. Trafflo;. .' was suspended. ' ■ "■'■ ■. i; -"A . procession of postmen, . firemen;;- -, city, metropolitan, and provincial polices.;' . marched eight miles to ffiort, ; in'Esksy?-y whore tho bodies were interred.The 1 hearses'were banked with' wreaths.'J ; Spectators lined the route throughout.l".';, . A reward of £500 is offered for '.the arrest' of persbns', ; wanted . - for :,the V' : Hotindsditch murders. ; A man has been arrested in. Whito- -' ' chapel on suspicion of being coricfrnedy-: in the iloundsditch murders. • ' i; • ,(l?eCi December 23, 9.40 p.m.) , London, December 23. " L v. , Tourks, another Houndsditch' suspMtjt l ; has; been arrested;. ; Mr. ChureJtill (Home Secretary);-'-is supplying the most' modern' type' of re-'J .* volver to . police stations for use ia*" emergencies. • \