The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-04
AFTER The BATTLE
London Is Still Stirred Over
Yesterdays Events.
Anarchists Are Now Believed to
Have Killed Themselves.
STARTED THE FIRE
When They Found Their Am
munitiOn Nearly Exhausted.
Evidence Found That There
Were Women Among Them.

London, Jan. 4.-After days reflec-
ton the sober thought of London ap-
pears to be that the marshaling OF
great force of police and military to
destroy "a little nest of outlaws was
mistake.
A number of provincial papers. too,
criticise the authorities sharply. The
Manchester Dispatch today says that
Englishmen have been made to appear
ridiculous and that the affair is one
which the country will be glad to for
get The impression is gaining ground
that the police should have dealt with
the business without calling upon the
soldiers and that the summoning of
the horse artillery was a particularly
unnecessary move.
Nothing has since developed to estab-
liSh that more than two men held the
tenement against several hundred po-
lice two half companies of Scots
guards from the Tower of London,
detachment of horse artillery with two
machine guns and a gatling gun and
fire brigade, to say nothing of tens of
thousands who lent their moral sup
port expressed in vociferous cheers. 1t
was reported that during the night the
police had discovered a third body in
the ruins but this is not true. Only
two men are known to have been
killed.
The police had located, according to
their belief, Peter the Painter" and
Fritz in a lodging room on the top
floor of the tenement house on Sidney
street Some of today's critics point
out that instead of walking upstairs,
kicking in the door and taking their
men, or taking whatever any officer is
likely to get in the discharge of his
duty, they summoned the landlady
g.. 6nT
| noitered about the house until they
drew tie fire of the anarchists from
the windows of their room.
Newspaper Circulation Immense.
The extent of the popular excitement
aroused by the unprecedented exhibit
tion will be better understood in the
light of the fact that the circulation of
the local newspapers of last evening
and this morning was greater than at
any previous time since the critical
| stages of the Boer war were heralded.
Surprising as it may seem. the papers
sold in London last night and again
this morning far exceeded the number
disposed of on the day of King Ed
wards death For the time public con-
cern over rumors of anarchist plots
| Matched in London appears to be over
shadowed by the discussion of the man.
, ner in which the suspected anarchists
| were disposed of.
that the building was fired by despera-
does. 1t is thought that when the
| trapped men found their ammunition
nearly spent and especially escape i'm
| possible they set fire to the building
and committed suicide.
No papers were found throwing
| light on the operations of the gang. Il
| is believed that they found refuge IN
| the tenement on December and thai
they were befriended by neighbors
Dot int
! members of an anarchist club which
| The police were aware of the activitie:
political.
A member of the club who gave the
| police a clew leading to the attack OF
yesterday said:
Neither Peter r-the-Painter' mol
| Fritz ever showed signs of doing any
honest work. Both attended the
meeting, the object of which was tC
| protest against the execution of Prof
Francisco Ferrer, the Spanish teacher
who was convicted of revolutionary
activity. I think both used anarchy
| as mask for their crimes
Women Among Them.
| 1t is established that women were
| associated with the gangs operations
| Three women believed to have beer
connected with the crimes are now il
| custody. The casualties reported from
yesterdays battle are five policemen
a sergeant of the Scots guards and &