THE HOUNDSDITCH BURGLARY.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1004, 20 December 1910, Page 5

THE HOUNDSDITCH BURGLARY.

— —« — LONDON EXCITED. BRAVERY OF UNARMED POLICE ; -PRAISED. SCIENTIFIC CRACKSMEN. By Telegraph—Press JJssociation-CBrs-rielit. • (Rec. December 20,. 1.15 a.m.) London, December 19. ' The'burglary at the jeweller's shop ill Houndsditch, .. reported -yesterday, was most, elaborately ■ planned. Goldstein, 5 -alias Levi, the. burglar who afterwards died iir i Whitechapel, ' had rented the house at Houndsditch next the shop to bo robbed. The'burglars, in'their attack on the police, handled. automatic; pistols, which proved far, deadlier than ordinary revolvers. Arms,' ammunition, and Nihilist literature were" found at'Goldstein's domicile. . . . The woman Soliriska' remains iA I' custody. She was urged -by a female friend who disappeared'.when , Goldstein was brought to the. [l.ticile'-to burn all documents and obeyed. ' .. Selinska decline's to® make a'statement; She remarked through ah interpreter that those-who had done wrong would get her out :of this, otherwise she would not say who they are, and "would put up with all. . ' ' - An eye-witness states that .one of the assassins of, the police fired four shots at a policeman until the latter fell. Another woman has-been arrested. * The newspapers pay splendid tributes I to all the three police victims killed by the, burglars, praising tlieir inflexible courage in endeavouring- to -enter the house after the first shots. , Ah honest enforcement of the Aliens Act is demanded. , "The Times" states. that, th? unarmed, condition of .tho -police will immediately impress itself upon-the , who'are excited, grieved, .and/indignant at the murderous outrage in' the. heart of Lotf ;don. The regular' criminal - has ho grudge; . against''flie'- police',' who .'are'regarded as doing only their, duty, ill a 'fair. 1 match with the; criminals' nimbleriess..' On the other hand, the, savage .delight in .taking life is the mark; of the modern Continental Anarchist criminal.. . The blowpipes' iintl oxygen abandoned by the burglars are, similar to, those used in the burglar, yat Messrs. Wright and .flodgkins's premises at/'Biriningham in August.. '•- 1 The burglary has caused a. sensation "in London." One newspaper . suggests -the arming of.;.the;: police. l AVguardians of property ,they ore liow helpless targets for. burglars'sohts. " ■ - '