Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-01-03
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'..ANARCH|STS AND
/ TROOPS WAGED IN
! HEART OF LONDON
All Day Long Machine Guns Rain
Bullets on Walls of Out
laws Citadel.
bel LEAGUERED THOUGHT TO
e MURDERERS OF OFFICERS
Desperadoes, Fearing Capture,
} Fire House and Die in
Flames.
BATTLEFIELD is VISITED
} BY SECRETARY CHURCHILL
Corps of Nurses Hurried to
Scene to Care for the
Wounded
BATTLEFIELD is VISITED
BY SECRETARY CHURCHILL
= G4orpoN. Jan. "a battle ragIng

-, oTDoN, Jan. "A battle raging
b all the fierceness of the Sepoy
kiny spread terror through Lon
east end today Policemen, SOL
and citizens besieged a house in
h at least six anarchists sought
refuge, and the rattle and roar of ma
chine guns, punctuated by the crack
of magazine rifles, echoed through the
streets: With the desperation of
fanatics the beleaguered desperadoes
fought all day, and 1t was not until the
house of their refuge. was hame-
wrapped that the spiteful snap of their
rifles was stilled.
AT least six men perished in the blaz-
ing structure. and one man, firing right
and left into the troops and police, was
forced back into the furnace. Thrown
into strong relief by the flames he was
seen 10 hurl his gun from him and
plunge headforemost into the inferno.
"Peter tho Painter" and Dutch
Fritz are known to have perished in
the flames. It is believed that four
companions perfshed with them. This
afternoon only the charred bodies Of
the two despsradoes wanted for the
assassination Of three policemen two
weeks ago had been recovered.
II 10 thought, seeing escape was inn
possibls, that the occupants fired the
house themselves.
The melee began sariy today by a
pitched battle between several hundred
police and bHnG % men suspected Of
belns the mur6srerB and the friends Of
the msrrdereys of the three policemen
who were Killed recsnfly by anarchistic
burglars.
Nrx. M l.or. f.f
whom was not lKpo vn. occupied four
story brick house In Sidney street q
narrow thoroushfare.
PoMee surround House.
The police, discovering their head
Quarters, surrounded the place and
were met with volley OF shots from
within.
A. rapid exchange Of shots followed.
turing which two detectives We're shot,
Done seriously.
One hundred shots had been fred
when the house caught fire and the fire
brigade was summoned.
The police, after locating their men
and anticipating trouble. had ordered
the houses in the Immediate neighbor-
hood vacated before daylight and.
throwing a line OF officers around the
square, allowed no one to approach
within q hundred yards of the scene
of the expected battle
The police lines had been drawn so
tightly that 1t was believed that the
inmates os the house had no chance to
escape. The police were satisfied that
the place contained the two murderers
wanted, and they had also satisfied
themselves that the assassins had forti-
fed their home and We're supported by
q number OF friends.
Since the murder of the policemen
almost the entire force of the city of
London police han been engaged in
watching for the anarchists. Trouble
began this morning when Detective
Sergeant Leeson, watching these
premises, was fred upon and wounded
In the lungs. In IN almost incredibly
short time q Gordon of police armed
with reviewers approached the house
and wore met with volley from rapid
xire rovoivers Of the most modern pat-
tern.
Rnauforcememts Pour In.
Pu7ine Superintendent Ottaway took
charge Of the reinforcements, and po-
lice from all the stations of the city
poured IN from various directions and
took up positions commanding the
refuge OF tile assassins.
Whenever the officers approached the
house a volley Of bullets spattered the
pavement. A detachment OF sixty men
with one officer and three non-commis-
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