ANARCHIST GANGS IN LONDON.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1012, 30 December 1910, Page 5

ANARCHIST GANGS IN LONDON.

/ -4 THE HOUNDSDITCH OUTRAGE 1 ; IMPORTANT DISCOVERY MADE BY POLICE. SUPPOSED CORONATION PLOT. Br Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright; (Eec. ■ December 30, 10.35 p.m.) . 'London, December 29. .. The police are much impressed with v thp importance of ; tho papers written in-Russian and Yiddish which were dis-; covefed at the'lodgings at Stepney occu-..' pied by JlerOujitzeiE (or Goldstein), ona of the Russians concenicd in the Hounds. : ditct outrage. On being deciphered, the documents reveal a wide-spread scheme of - robbery and plunder, and indicate a number of places on which the police are' concentrating..-. their attention. ' • . . In addition ,to the chemicals, a" nnmber of mechanical appliances were discovered in the rooms. -: ■ Merountzeff posed •as- an artist. Tho * neighbours state that he often worked' throughout th© night. A woman,, aged. thirty, a man, and two respectably-dressed, foreign- 4 . ers, frequented the house. ' ; ;■■■' The- police are : trying ; to; . trace- the origin . of. the fifty-sev.en-pound ..cylinder \ of gas discovered at the. scene-, of the burglary. An alien criminal in. Parkhurst. prison;has informed the police that ho' is able to identify hundreds implicated in the outrage., . . • , - .' . . The "Daily .Chronicle", states that , tha:: pojice are considering : a .theory that ■; Merountzeff was tie head of a gang which. : was preparing ah Anarchist outrage .dur. "ing-the Coronation' festivities.' v / :'■ V