THE SUSPECTS LOCATED.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1017, 5 January 1911, Page 5

THE SUSPECTS LOCATED.

ELABORATE POLICE PLANS. THRILLING INCIDENTS'OP THE SIEGE. (Bee. January 4, 10.15 p.m.) London, January 4. The police throughout were convinced that the assassins were hiding in tho neighbourhood of Morountzeil's lodgings. Officers disguised as shoeblacks, Jewish pedlars, and street hawkers were watching day and night, and terrible evidence was soon forthcoming. Secret observations were mado from empty apartments, and also from manufacturing premises in the vicinity, and two suspicious-looking foreign lodgers were located at No. 100 Sidney Street. The Utmost Secrecy. Tho polico plans woro laid with tho utmost secrecy. The other tenants in the building were n'uictly removed early yesterday without alarming the suspects. The newspapers comment on tho police refraining from rushing the suspects forthwith. They, however, preferred to await daylight, and probably had superior,

instructions, in view of the fact that tlie darkness at Jloundsditch favoured the escape of the miscreants on that occasion.

I'ivo of his comrades and the doctor who were assisting to remove Detective Lcesou were subjected tu a hot fire.

The Main Battle,

Tho main part of the battle was waged between besieged men's windows and those dh-ectly opposite.

At intervals the sharp cracks of the service rifles were punctuated by the savage .snaps of the' automatic pistols of the Anarchists returning the police fire, and it. was possible to see tho dust of the striking bullets as they chipped the masonry from windows behind which the 'polios and soldiers were ensconced.

Every window in the vicinity, and many ip the actual area of the conilict, were filled with onlookers, mostly women and children of Semitic type. It.was a miracle that the erratic ricocheting of the bullets —3nany of them fired at an angle—inflicted such little injury.

Dummy Soldiers. Dummy soldiers placed at one window, and soldiers' caps hoisted on sticks in other instances,-drew the Anarchists' fire, the soldiers almost simultaneously responding.

At one moment scores of police offered to rusli the building, but Mr. Churchill forbade them, as' ho was unwilling to jeopardise more lives.

A bullet struck a colour-sergeant's shin while he was kneeling in the street. He was medically treated, and limped back to his position in the firing line,

Artillery Summoned. A section of the Royal Horso Artillery, from St. John's Wood, was summoned in order to demolish the house. A party of the Royal Engineers from Chatham was also summoned to execute sapping and' mining. Their services were not required, liowever, tho fire solving the difficulty. Ono theory is that the besieged men started the blaze, realising that their caso was desperate, and being determined +0 destroy the evidences of their organisation. . 1

Breathless Excitement, There was breathless excitement when at a quarter past one the fire engines arrived. They were not permitted to act, though the house was burning fiercely. It "was evident at 1.30 p.m. that the building would be gutted. The approaches to the houso were cleared, and tho soldiers and police lined up. Then there was a sudden heavy burst of firing. An Anarcliist, unable to stand tho heat of the pursuing flames, appeared behind the glass pauels of the front dcor. Instantly' the rifles flashed, and the occupants of the. houso opposite heard tho maji 1 shriek in agony.. Suicide of Bosieged.

Almost'simultaneously the spectators heard two shots in rapid succession within. It was apparent that the besieged at that moment committed suicide. Otherwise they would a moment afterwards . have perished under the collapsing roof and floor. The crowd showed its sympathies with the,police by cheering lustily on witnessing the miscreants' fate. • The' firemen '-then began work. The head, arms, and legs of one body arc missing. The'skull was found separately. . A kinematograpli picture of the battle was exhibited last night. 1 . •Detective Eeeson's bullet has been extracted. He is progressing favourably. Two Mauser pistols, and three boxes of, photographs, have been found in the ruins.

LANDLADY POINTS OUT MEN. CURIOUS COINCIDENCE. (Rec. January 5, 0.25 a.m.) 1 London, January -4. The landlady of the Sidney Street lodgiughouse pointed out to the polico the front room on. the first floor where the suspects were asleep. A curious coincidence is that the man Beron, murdered at • Clapham Common, lived in Jubilee Street.

.THE HOUNDSDITCH SHOOTING. WIDESPREAD PLANS.. ' The Houndsditch crime occurred on December 18. The police, in attempting to arrest a gang of burglars at a jeweller's shop at Houndsditch, surrounded the house. Realising that they were trapped, the burglars opened the door and rushed out, firing a volley. Five policemen were shot, three of them dying from their injuries.' The burglars escaped. Subsequently, .one of the burglars, Morountzeff, alias Goldstein, a recent arrival from Russia, was found dying from a revolver wound .at a house in Whitechapel. A woman named Selinska, who was nursing him, was arrested. At Goldstein's lodgings in Stepney were found many papers in Russian and Yiddish, and a' considerable quantity of chemicals and explosives. The documents, on being deciphered, revealed a widespread scheme of robbery and plunder. The police were of opinion that the robbery was planned in. order to obtain funds to manufacture bombs on a large scale for export, to Kussia. Forty meeting places of Anarchists in Whitechapel wero subsequently discovered.

Five men and three women, all of them being Russians,'were later arrested in coninection with the Houndsditch affair.