THE HOUNDSDITCH MURDERS

Marlborough Express, Volume XLV, Issue 62, 14 March 1911, Page 6

THE HOUNDSDITCH MURDERS

The case for the Crown- was outlined. at the Guildhall Police Court this week when the three men and two women charged in conueation with the murder of three City policemen on 16 were brought xip again. On behalf of the prosecution Mr Bodkin said that they alleged complicity in the :aiurders on the part of. the men and cihargod the \yomen , with being accessories

after the fact. All the prisouer& were charged with being concerned in the attempt to break into the jeweller's shop in Houndsditch which preceded the murders. Counsel went on to describe how, on the afternoon of the day of the murders, lour of the five prisoners met Svaars, Peter the Painter, and Gardstein at F.'t/.s lodgings in Grove Street to arrange the final details of the burglary. He suggested the probability that Gaidsteiii was shot by two members of the gang, who, seeing Constable Choat about to arrest Gardstein, fired at the officer and hit their companion instead. Dubof and Peters- -i.wo^ of the prisoners—had been identiiied as the two men who afterwards removed Gardstein to Grove Street. A young Russian named To.-niacolt spoke to the meeting of Die gang at Fritz's lodgings on the day of me murder. He said that he went there, to show some songs w> be j.layed on the mandoline. Statements by Dubof and Peters alleging they we?-e afc home at the time of the murders then read in Court, and the | prisoners remanded. —Standard or I Empire.