ANARCHY IN LONDON

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10143, 20 January 1911, Page 5

ANARCHY IN LONDON

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THE RECENT FIRE. HOME SECRETARY'S EVIDENCE. (Received January 19, 8.10 a.m.) | LONDON, January 18, I At the resumed inquest regarding the death of the two men whose bodies I were found in the ruins of the Anar- , chist Club building in Sidney Street i after the attack by the police and j military, it was stated that the body I of Jacob Fogel had been identified, through a fracture of the thigh—sus- j tained some time before his death — which caused him to limp. The Home-Secretary, ij^r..'Winston Churchill, gave evidence (jo; the 'effect that he first heard of the;] affray be- 7 tween the police and the' Anarchists : when authority required for the. despatch *of tlie Scots Guards to? the scene. He considered it'his duty;, to see what was happening. Throughout the police were ready and eager to rush the building. The jury's, verdict of justifiable, homicide-set out that Frit& had, suffocated, arid that Fogel, had - been; shot by a soldier.whose haine was hot i 'known. /• /:"V C '■'■■■ ■' "< "'■' '■ I ".'- : '". *'•• '"-;,'■■ •- A rider'was added expressing the hope that the tragic occurrence _would lead to the adoption of stringent regulations governing the entry into Great Britain of criminal aliens. MR CHURCHILL'S INTERFERENCE. . / THEBODIES IDENTIFIED. (Received-Lasfc.vNigis^ ,i , LOND^Na^nuary ; % -, ? Mr Winston testified that the police had a free hand throughout. He thought, inasmuch as he was on the spot, that they were quite right in coming and asking if they were justified in watching the house burn. Had the firemen been allowed to extinguish the flames; they would.nibst certainly ha,ve been killed. He added: "I accept ijull responsibility, not for interfering with the police, but for supporting them and confirming the orders they gave." • . „„The jury was satisfied that the first body was of the limping man known as "Joseph," and the other body Fritz's. ' .|: ■-. .„;.-•■■ ' '? ■ ' ■