THE TOTTENHAM SENSATION.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 21, 26 January 1909, Page 5

THE TOTTENHAM SENSATION.

RUNNING DOWN THE ROBBERS. THE PRESS ON RUSSIAN METHODS. By TelejjapTi.— Press Association.— Copyright. LONDON, 25th January. The names of the authors of the Tottenham robbery, in tho course of which two persons were shot dead, were Ha■feld and Jacob. They were members of the Russian revolutionary party, which has its headquarters in London. Hafed shot himself, or, according to another account, was shot by a policeman and captured. Jacob rushed into a cottage and shut himself in an upper room. His pursuers thrice summoned him to surrender. Receiving no answer, Constable Eagles fired two shots through the door, apparently wounding Jacob, who was then seen, through an opening between the door and the floor, cautiously advancing. The door was quietly opened, and Jacob appeared, delibei'ately aiming a revolver with his left hand, the muzzle resting on his right arm ; but Eagles was too quick for him, and fired, the bullet entering Jacob's forehead. ! Jacob rolled over on to the bed, and was dead before Eagles reached him. Commenting on the incident, The j Times says it is high time tt> put some more effectual restrictions on the facile entry of alien degenerates. The Daily News remarks that two brigands, who bad escaped "Storypin's necktie," apparently dreamed of acclimatising their methods in Britain. The experiment is hardly likely to be repeated. All the newspapers hope that the widow of the constable who was killed, the relatives of the boy, and the constables, who were wounded, will be suitably remembered. The sufferers atfe progressing.