The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-01-05
ANARCHIST PLOT
ST|RS LONDON
Excitement Resulting From
Tuesdays Battle Is Not One
Whit Abated.
NOW BELIEVED CRIMINALS
TOOK THEIR OWN LIVES
Feeling Grows for Severe Meas
ures in Regard to Alien
ROgues.

LONDON. Jan d-Public excite
ment on the hunting down of the an
arcbist burglar gang continues great.
Today immense crowds assembled
about the dingy street in the east end
which yesterday was the scene of
battle the like Of which had not been
known in the history of London g po'
lice department,
During the night the police thorough
" overhauled the ruins Of the tcne-
mcnt house in Sidney street where the
outlaws made their last stand and were
shot c. burned to death in the fight
with the police and soldiers.
The officers discovered parts of an
other body. While little except the
head and neck were intact, the author
tiles have no doubt that the parts were
from the body of '.Peter the Painter, -
who last night was believed to be still
at large.
ALI three bodies recovered from the
burned house were found in n back
room on the ground floor.
Death by Suicide.
The claim is established apparently
that the building was fired by the des"
peradoes. 1t is thought that when the
trapped men found their ammunition
nearly exhausted and escape lmpossi,
| BILE. they set fire TO the building and
committed suicide.
No papers were found throwing light
on the operations OF the gang.
| It is believed that they found refuge
in the tenement on December 90, and
that they were befriended by neigh
bors.
"Peter the Painter and "Dutch
! Fritz were members of an anarchist
club which met near Sidney street until
recently. The police were aware of the
activities Of this club, but considered
them only political. A member of the
ing to the attcck of yesterday, said:
"Neither Peter the Painter nor
Dutch Fritz ever showed signs of
doing any honest work Both attended
the mcetin-, the object of which was
to protest against the execution Of
Professor Francisco Ferrer, the Span
sh teacher who was convicted of rev
used anarchy as mask for their
crimes. -
| 1t is established that women were as
sociated with the gangs operations.
Three women believed to have been
connected with the crimes are now In
custody.
London Deeply Stirred
The casualties reported from yester-
davis battle are five policemen, a ser
geant Of the Scots guards and half
dozen spectators wounded by the bul"
| let's. most of them slightly, and two
| fremen seriously and three 6remen
| slightly injured in the collapse Of the
burning building.
The mysterious tragedy uncovered
Sunday is believed TO form link In
the story of the Houndsditch burglar
gang. 4 French Jew, Joseph Beron:
who had lived near the anarchists
rendezvous, was found murdered on
| Chaplain common, in the opposite end
| of London There were stab wounds
in the back and the head was brutally
battered.
Londoners are greatly stirred by the
succession of murders. which is wholly
| foreign TO British experience. The
Conservative papers blame the Liberal
government, charging that the authori
| ties have failed to enforce the alien
nct. The Times criticiscs the use of
soldiers Yesterday and considers that
the affair was badly managed.
Sir Robert Anderson, former head of
the criminal investigation department.
SAYS: "The British inaction In regard
to alien criminals would djscredit d
company of medically certified luna
tics. The alien act was intended TO
keep criminals. from entering our ports,
but bv willful maladministration the
good it might accomplish has been
! thwartcd deliberately. We need new
and full power to get rid Of the alien
criminal.
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