FUNERAL RITES

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10153, 24 December 1910, Page 5

FUNERAL RITES

CABLE NEWS

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.

TO MURDERED CONSTABLES,

IMPOSING PROCESSION

(Received December 23, !).30 a.in ) LONDON. December 22. An impressive service \v;is held m St. Par,;":; dihedral in connection with tjie ire aI of the three policemen murcio.: ■;; !\v the Russian burglars at Houndsditch. Mr E. W. Wellington, C.M.G., private secretary to Queen Mary, represented the King. The City and Metropolitan Mayo.is, the Right Hon. Winston Churchill, and Sir iklward . Reid were present. The three coffins were placed at the head of the nave. The service ended with the hymn "Rock of Ages." Many of the audience were overcome. The streets were crowded, many Jews being among the spectators. Traffic was suspended. A procession of postmen, firemen, city, metropolitan, and provincial police marched eight miles to Ilford, in Essex, where the bodies were interred. The hearses were banked with wreaths. Spectators lined the route througr;out. REWARD OFFERED. (Received December 23, 9.40 a.m.) LONDON, December 22. A reward of £SOO is offered for the arrest of persons wanted for the Houndsditch murders. A SUSPECT ARRESTLD. (Received December 23, f>. i'i p.m.) LONDON, December 22. A msn has been arrested in Wintechan?) on susniei m of being concerned in. the Houndsditch murders.

ANOTHER ARREST. (Received T.«st. Night, 10 o'clock.) LONDON. December 23. Another Honndsditch suspect n.Uiied Your.vs has been arrested. Mr vunston Churchill, Home Secreatry, is supplying the most modern type of revolver to police stations, for use i • mergencies.