LONDON SENSATION

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10131, 7 January 1911, Page 5

LONDON SENSATION

CABLE NEWS United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph,—Copyright.

INQUEST ON MOROUNTZEFF. A LANDLADY'S EVIDENCE. : (Received January 6, 9 a.m.) LONDON,.January 5. At the inquest on Morountzeff (alias Goldstein), one of the men. who assisted in the killing of. three police and the wounding of two others at Houndsditch, and who was afterwards shot in mistake by one of his friends,'' Mrs Katz, the landlady at 59, Grove Street, where Morountzeff died, identified one of i ;.the .arrested womeny Milstein,.,, as the mistress, of "Fritz," who, perished in the building attacked by the police on Tuesday. Both "Fritz" and the woman lived . in: Grove Street. Trassjonsky, ' the other arrested 'woman, visited them two or three times daily. Morountzeff was also a visitor. In the course of a sharp cross-ex-amination, Katz* the landlady's- husr band, admitted that: he had heard •rapping on a shutter arid bad.let.in Trassjonsky early on Saturday,- 17th. December.: . \ - > V KING GEORGE'S SYMPATHY. (Received January 6, 9.7 a.m.) LONDON, January 5. King George' sent a message of l sympathy to Detective,, Leeson and the others injured in the fight with the- annr-chists. < He arnestly enquired regarding, their'progress. [ RUSSIAN OprNIONS. . ■ CONTINENTAL POLICE IMPEDED IN THEIR WORK. (Received January 6, 9.15 a.m.) | ( , bf. PETERSBURG, Jan. 5. | The Russian authorities are of opinion that it is essential that Eifgland should establish more complete surveillance of foreigners. Continental police dealing with anarchists are, they say, impeded by the immunity enjoyed in England t by, members of anarchist org£(nisatipn§. ! FURTHER PARTICULARS. _ SECOND BODY IDENTIFIED. I A'BIG GANG OF CRIMINALS.-' H (Received liast Night, 11.3 o'clock.) < ' LONDON, January 6. The Daily Mail states that Fritz's 'dead companion, known as Joseen, has been identified as- Jacob Fogel, aged 22, a native of Kovna, who > participated in several Bank raids. He, was captured, but escaped, and England in February, 1910. i,He.<„worked for three months as a tailor's presser. , -„ • The Mail adds that it" "is now ! known that Morountzeff, Fritz and, Fogel were members of a gang of twenty-eight women. i The Telegraph stat that Beron was Russian-born. . His murder has the appearance or a vendetta. It is believed that he was killed lest he J should give information concerning , jthe wliereabonts of Fritz. The latter rind his companion' changed'their j lodgings to 100, Sidney Street, on the morning after Beron's death. WARNED BY CORONER. '''"' (Received last Night, 10.15 o'clock.) ' LONDON, January 6. The Coroner strongly warned Mrs Katz, MorountzefPs landlady, for prevaricating and withholding facts which had come to her knowledge, and commented on the difficulty of eliciting'the truth owing to local feeling.