TEBBITT'S CRIME.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIII, Issue 3, 1 May 1912, Page 3

TEBBITT'S CRIME.

A most dotcriiiijictl attempt to as sassinato Mr Leopold do Rothschik was made on March -Jth as ho was leaving the city oificcs of the world ijiiiiiM.i.s bai.king JiiMi oi' Messrs A n:s a.'io:«i';i;it tirod iivo shots fro'.r. a revolver ifi rapid succession. ?tlr de Rothschild was uninjured, but a police officer who was on special duty outside the firm's offices received two bullet wounds while attmpting to seize the man. After emptying his revolve]' the assailant dashed along St.

■ Swithin's Lane, but lie war, knocked i down and captured by a policeman. \ Three or four city, men tried to seize Xebbit, but lie knocked one i down and eluded the others, dries or "Stop him!" were raised, and sev- • oral persons started in pursuit. At ■| t';e cling William Street end of St. J j Swithiii's Lane Police-Constable Ilaz-j I ell was on point duty. He heart! tho • shots and saw the man coining. Dash--1 ing forward, lie met him at the corner of George Street. The officer, a tall, • brawnv man, struck the fugitive full i in tho face, knocked him down, and promptly pinned him to the ground. [m mediately alter the firing of the shots Mr de Rothschild directed the chauffeur to back into New Court. He then 'nastily dismounted and sprang to tho assistance of the wounded officer, The police ambulance was I sent for and the constable was taken

jto St. Bartholomew's Hospital. An eye witness said: "When one car backed into the (oui'l Mr do Rothschild, who seemed perfectly calm and collected, without even looking in the direction in which bis assailant had

gone, anxiously inquired as to the officer's condition and assisted him into the offices of the firm." Sidney Coleman, a lad of 20, who sells newspapers in-St. Switbin's Lane, and sav. the whole incident, stater;: — "I war-; standing about fifty yards from the court when Mr de Rothschild's car came out. A man was standing at the entrance of the court, and when Die car was within four yards lie drew a revolver and fired at then front of the car. The bullet went past the chauffeur's head and smasheel tlie glass screen. I dropped my papers and ran, but before 1 reaphed the ear the/man fired another shot

through the glass screen. ; ':<; thou made a rush for the door of the car, hut Constahle Berg sprang

forward and hit him under the chin. | A;; lie was struck lie fired again, and the bullet struck the constable in the ne< I;. The revolver again went off, hut the bullet flew •.vide. The man managed to get up and jumped for the splashboard. He pulled -the trigger again, but ! knocked the weapon out of his hand." The assailant is about 30 years of age. According to some account lie is of Jewish extraction. \ Mr Leopold de Rothschild, aged G 7. youngest brother of Lord Rothschild, is as well known on the turf as in tlic world of finance. He won the Derby with St. Amant in what is known as the "thunderstorm year," and he was also tho owner of St. !'"r,is ;",i;i. just beaten by King Edward's first Derby winner Persimmon in LB9G. Mr de Rothschild breeds and i , ;K , ; > :-; on an extensive scale, and Jig has with every justification been described as one of the props and pillars of the turf.