LONDON OUTRAGES.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1022, 11 January 1911, Page 5

LONDON OUTRAGES.

PROTRACTED INQUIRIES. MR, WINSTON CHURCHILL IN CHARGE. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright, (lie'c. January 10, 11.50 p.m.) London, January 10. The Magisterial inquiries into tho Sidney Street and Houndsditch outrages are likely to he protracted, as thero will be many witnesses to be examined, speaking only Yiddish or Russian.. The woman Bessie Gershon, in whoso room tho Sidney Street desperados wero discovered, gave 'evidence that Jacobs rts a friend of her husband's. Fritz and Jacobs arrived at eleven o'clock at night, and terrorised her into giving up her bedroom. They then compelled her to take her skirt and shoes off to prevent her leaving the house. Tho officer commanding tho firo brigade gave ovidenco that tho police toldhim that Mr. Winston Churchill (Home Secretary) had charge of tho operations. Ho waited an hour until Mr. Churchill allowed' him to extinguish the fire. Tho cylinders found in the Sidney Street ruins were not bombs, but merely tubes used in button-making. THE CLAPHAM MURDER. ARRESTED MAN'S STATEMENT. Lon'don, January 9. The man arrested for the murder of Beron, the French Jew, at Clapham Cdinr mon, has been identified as Steiner Morrison. He was seen supping' with Beron on New Year's Eve, and had also been seen witii him on other occasions. Morrison made a voluntary statement to the police. "I am," he said, " a native of Australia. I was born in Sydney, and brought up in England. Latterly I have worked as a journeyman baker." At tho Police Court, the polico testified that they had found bloodstains' on c. cuff and collar belonging to Morrison, who was remanded for a week. Further human remains have been found belonging to Fritz or Fogel, who lost their lives in the building in Sidney Street 'attacked by the police.