EXCITING TIMES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 854, 28 June 1910, Page 5

EXCITING TIMES.

FIVE HUNDRED POLICE AFTER TWO MEN. At Walthamstow two ■ Russian workmen, members of the Revolutionary party, held up a motor-car, and made away with .£BO, in gold,, intended as wages for the employees in a factory at Tottenham. The two men were- chased by a crowd from Tottenham to Walthamstow, and fired indiscriminately at their pursuers, killing a policeman and a boy. Afterwards they held up a tram-car, firing at and wounding tho passengers. Subsequently'they turned their attention to a milk van, and then to another horse and cart. After a desperate chase across i the fields, they wero cornered at Hale End, and one of tho Russians, Hefeldt, shot himself. The other, Jacob, made his "way to a cottage, fand after resisting : tho police for some time and wounding a constable, he, too, shot himself and . died immediately. Hefeldt died about a fortrJght afterwards. Jβ all, two pursona [ were killed, and three constables and fourteen other persons wero wounded, several seriously. . At Jamaica Plain, near Boston, a saloon was "held up" in April, 1908,. and raised by three armed strangers, ■ who shot one man dead, wounded two others, i and rifled tho cash register. Ono of tho • desperadoes was arrested, but tho other two decamped. Next evening they boldly ■appeared in the streets with the intention of making for tho polico station and releasing their comrade. They were recognised, and a crowd pursued them. Wild scenes ensued, and the whole place was in an uproar. In running the gauntlet the bandits shot indiscriminately at their pursuers and the bystanders alike, killing another man and wounding a number of others, including threo policemen and a woman with a baby. In tho du3k they escaped into a cemetery. Thereupon a strong cordon of police, to the number of 500, all armed, surrounded tho grounds of tho cemetery, with orders tii shoot tho men at sight. During the night several shots were exchanged- with the men. At daybrea'k they wero sighted, ; and, though brought to bay, desperately resisted the demand to surrender, and fought to the last. One fell dead, riddled ! with bullets; the other was captured, dangerously wounded. The men wero ! said to be Italians.