HOUNDSDITCH AFFAIR.
LEADERS IDENTICAL WITH ESCAPED AMERICAN CRIMINALS.
DETECTIVE'S DISCOVERY.
, i fls .Telwraph-Press Association—Oopyritfil ' (Reel* February 19, 10.5 p.m.)' / '~'•'', '■'.' N BW Yorh > February 11. ; ; in i9oß„a number of desperate criminals' terrorised the Forrest-Hills Dis:triot, near Boston. Finally three criminals fought, a pitched battle with four hundred ;pplice. Nearly twenty persons t, were wounded.. ■■.':. ■a Two criminals escaped to Philadelphia. . •. An American detective, as a result of inquiries, know satisfiedl-that,the es- , capees;are identical with Svar'rs and' 'Goldstein, who were concerned in the Hoiindsditch outrage on December. 17, 1910.- \-r-:-
(A, cable, message from London, dated December , 18, .1910, stated: "While attempting to arrest a Rang of burglars at -a 'jeweller's shon at Hounsditch; the police surrounded the : house. Realising that. they-.' were trapped the burglars opened,the. door and rushed out filing a • vol)ey.'Five .policemen were shot, two dying ifrem their injuries.. Goldstein, a Russian Pole, one of the assajlants of •,the police, 'was ■ found dying'from a revolverwpund supposed .to be accidental. He succumbed at his. domicile in~White.chapel. -Five men and three women, all Eussians,. have been arrested." •'
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1989, 20 February 1914, Page 7
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176HOUNDSDITCH AFFAIR. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1989, 20 February 1914, Page 7
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