HIGHWAY ROBBERY.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3101, 26 January 1909, Page 5

HIGHWAY ROBBERY.

STARTLING event. RUSSIANS RUN AMOK IN LONDON SUBURB. TWO PERSONS SHOT. Received January 25, 8.25 a.m. LONDON, January 24. Two Russian workmen, with army revolvers, held up a motor-car and seized a bag of sovereigns. They then ran amok from Tottenham to Walthamston. The crowd gave chase. The Russians fired indiscriminately,, frequently reloading, and killed a policeman and a boy. On reaching Walthamston they boarded a tramcar, firing on the passengers, the police following in a motor-car. Finding their pursuers gaining, one of the robbers blew his brains out on the road. The other took refuge in a house, and there shot himself, inflictintj mortal wounds. The Russians employed in a Tottenham factory, and knew it was the custom to bring £IOO weekly to pay wage-). A CONSTABLE'S EXCITING EXPERIENCE. Received January 25, 11.30 p.m. LONDON. January 25. The authors of the outrage were named Hafeld and Jacob. They were members of the Russian Revolutionary Party, whose headquarters are in London. Hafeld shot himself,, or,, according to another account, was by a policeman and captured. Jacob rushed into a cottage and shot himself in an upper room. Three times he was summoned to surrender. Not receiving an answer, Constable Eagles fired two shots through the door, apparently wounding Jacob, who was seen through an opening between the door and the floor, cautiously advancing to the door. The latter was quietly opened, and Jacob appeared deliberately aiming his revolver with his left hand the muzzle resting on his right arm, and fired, the bullet entering the Russian's forehead. Jacob rolled over on to a bed dead before Eagles reached him.

Received January 25, 10.56 p.m. LONDON, January 25. "The Times" in an article states that it is high time the Government put some more effectufl restrictions on the facile entry of alien degenerates into England. The "Daily News," also commenting on the outrage, says that the two brigands escaped "Stolypin's necktie," and apparently dreamed of acclimatising their methods in Britain. The experiment will hardly be repeated. All the newspapers hope that the constable's widow and the relatives of the boy killed and. the constables wounded will be .suitably remembered. The sufferers are progressing well.