THE RUSSIAN ROBBERS.
TOTTENHAM OUTRAGE. COMPENSATION FOR VICTIMS. By Telegraph —Press Association.—CopyrightLondon, February 5. Mr. Herbert Gladstone, Secretary for Home Affairs, states that it is the intention of the Government to compensate the families of the victims of the recent Tottenham outrage. During the past three years he had been recommended by various tribunals to expel 947 aliens from the country, and in 913 cases orders for expulsion had been made. On January 24, two Russian workmen held up a motor car and . seized a bag of sovereigns. They afterwards ran amok between Tottenham and Walthamstow. A crowd gave chase, and the thieves fired indiscriminately, killing a policeman and a boy. Later one of the Russians blew out hie brains when he saw* that capture was inevitable, and the other, taking refuge in a house, wae fatally wounded by a shot from a constable's revolver.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 13979, 8 February 1909, Page 5
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