UNDESIRABLE IMMIGRANTS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2409, 26 January 1909, Page 5

UNDESIRABLE IMMIGRANTS.

RUSSIAN DESPERADOES IN ENGLAND. .

COMMIT ROBBERY, MURDER. AND SUICIDE. vJJnited Press Association. Copyright • LONDON, Jan. 24. Two Russian workmen held up a motor car, seized a bag or severeigns, and ran amok at Tottenham and "Walthamstow, being armed with revolvers. ' . «

The crowd gave chase. The Russians tired indiscriminately, frequently reloading. They killed a policeman and a hoy. On reaching Walthamstow they boarded a tramcar, firing at the passengers. The police followed on a motor car. Finding that their pursuers were gaining, one Russian blew his brains out on the road. Tho other took refuge in a house, wliero he shot himself mortally. The Russians were employed at a Tottenham factory. They knew it was the custom to bring £IOO to pay wages.

DETAILS OF THE TRAGEDY. ONE. RUSSIAN SHOT 13Y A CONSTABLE. A . , (Received Jan. 25, 11.30 p.in.) LONDON, Jan.' 25. Hafeld and Jacob,- the authors of the Tottenham savagery, were members of the Russian revolutionary party’s headquarters at oondou. Hafcld shot himself, or, according to -another f- ... account, was shot by a policeman and captured, while Jacob rushed into a cottage, shut himself in an upper room, and was thrice summoned to surrender. Receiving no -answer Constable Eagles fired two shots through the -door, apparently wounding Jacob, who was seen through the opening between the door and the floor to be cautiously advancing. The floor was ' quickly opened, and Jacob appeared, deliberately aiming his revolver with his left hand, the barrel resting on his right arm, but Eagles was too quick for him, and fired, the, bullet entering the forehead of Jacob, who rolled ovc-r on to the bed and was dead before Eagles reached him.

NEWSPAPER COMMENTS.

RESTRICTION OF IMMIGRATION SUGGESTED.

(Received Jan. 25, 11.30 p.m.)

LONDON, Jan. 25. Commenting on the occurrence, the “Times” .says that it is high time to put some more effectual restrictions on the facile entry of alien degenerates. The “Daily News” says that two brigands --who Lad escaped AStolypin’s necktie” apparently dreamed of acclimatising their methods in Britain, but the experiment is hardly likely to be repeated. All newspapers express the hope that the constable’s widow, the relatives of the boy killed, and the constables ;wounded will be suitably remembered. The sufferers are progressing favorably.