RUSSIAN DESPERADOES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 14431, 26 January 1909, Page 5

RUSSIAN DESPERADOES

A SENSATIONAL OCCURRENCE. MURDER AND SUICIDE. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON. January 21. Two Russian workmen held up a motor car and seized a bag containing sovereigns, They then ran amok through Tottenham and Wallhiitnslow, usiny army revolvers. A crowd gave chase, but the Russians fired on tin-in indiscriminately, frequently reloading their weapons. They killed a, policeman and a bov.

On reaching Waltbamstow the desperadoes boarded a tramcar and tired at the passengers, The police, following in a.' motor car, also kept up a running fire, and as the pursuers were gaining on them one ,if the Russians blew his brains out. Tho other took refuge in a house, where lie mortally shot himself.

The two Russians were employed in a ToVeuluun. factory, and knew that- it was the custom of the firm to bring £ICO in sovereigns to pay wages on Sutuidays. January 25. (Received Jan, 25, at 11.30 p.m.)

tlafe.'d and Jacob, the authors of the Tottenham savagery, were members of the Russian Revolutionary party, which has its headi|inuleis in London.

Hafeld shot, himself, or, according to another account, was shot by a policeman and captured, while Jacob rushed into a cottage and shut himself in an upper

Jacob was flirieo summoned to surrender, and, nut recoivieig an answer, Constable Eagles lived two shots through the dcor, apparently wounding Jacob, who was seen through an opening between the door and the floor cautiously advancing. Tho d->or was quietly opciisn, and Jacob appeared, deliberately aiming his revolver with his lelt baud, the muzzle resting on his right arm. Constable Eagles wa.s too quick for him, anel tired a bullet, which entered Jacob's forehead. Jacob idled over on to a bed dead before Constable Eagles reached him.

The Times says it. is high time to,put some, more effectual restrictions on (he facile entry of alien degenerates.

Tiio Daily News says that the two brigands who have escaped " Stolypin's necktie" apparently dreamed of ncdiniatisjng their ir.etliwl.-i in Britain, but the experiment is hardly likely to be repeated.

Ail the newspapers express (be hope that tho constable's widow, the udatives of the boy who was killed, awl the constables who were wounded will be suitably

remembered. ; The sufferers are progressing favourably