HOUNDSDITCH TRAGEDY

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXXI, Issue 15494, 21 December 1910, Page 9

HOUNDSDITCH TRAGEDY

KING’S CONDOLENCE. PUBLIC FUNERAL OF THE VICTIMS. SERVICE AT ST PAUL’S. United Press Association —By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, December 19. Tho King has sent his condolence to the families of the murdered policemen. The mon will be accorded a public funeral, and a servico will tnko place in St Paul’s on Thursday, at which tho Lord Mayor will attend. Detectives searching tho house in Grove Street forced a locked door and found a dummy in bed. It is believed that this was a ruse to secure time, and the murderers had escaped immediately before. IDENTITY OF THE ASSASSINS. ALL RUSSIANS. INQUEST ON GOLDSTEIN. LONDON, December 20. Tho identity of • tho Houndsditch assnssins lias been established. They are all Russians. Thirty armed detectives aro searching Eastern London. Dr Bernstein, who made an autopsy on Goldstein, states that tho bullet in his body was similar to those extracted from the policemen. Goldstein, who was a Luthuanian, wore Russian made clothes and probably had been in England only a few weeks. Ho must have belonged to a gang of terrorists not ordinary East End ruffians.

An inquest has been opened regarding Goldstein’s death. The evidence showed that Goldstein told the doctor attending him that ho was shot in mistake by a friend.