Republican farmer., 1919-08-22
OF G0RKY WILL BE
 LONDON BANDIT
Central Figure in Hounds ditch Murder, is Lenine's
 Gentle Aid.
FLED FROM ENGLAND
 TO MEET RUSS KIN
Jake Peters a Fitting Tool to Garry Out Demands of
 Bolsheviks.

New York, Aug. 21.-Jake Peters, ! ''Executioner of the Russian Revo-
 lution," who is reported to have sign
 ed the order for the arrest and ex- | ecution of Maxim Gorlly. was cen ! tral figure in the Houndsditch mur- l ders in London in December. 1910. l He was arrested at that time, but | was released on an alibi establish | ed through his close resemblance to | an anarchist cousin. Fritz Svaar, who l was killed during the battle that end | ed in the arrest of members of the | Houndsditch gang of thieves. The Houndsditch murders, both be- l cause of their sheer coldbloodedness | and because of the stiff battle that | the perpetrators put up, aroused two | continents.
 The Wanton Houndsditch Murder. On the night of December G. 1910, | just before midnight, constable
 going through Houndsditch, a narrow
 thoroughfare on the edge of the Lon l don Ghetto, was shot without warning by five men who were planning to rob
 the jewelry firm of Fl. & Harris of a
 sum estimated at S1OO 900. The killing
 appeared to have been absolutely
 wanton.
 The noise of the shooting aroused other policemen, who hurried up. In the pitched battle between the thievas
 and the policemen that resulted one police sergeant was killed outright
 another sergeant and a private died
 of wounds received in the engage ) ment and two other policemen were } seriously wounded. Both legs of one of them were broken.
 7 The murderers were five in number.
 One of them was shot in the fight } ana was found in house in 3 WhitechapeL The house in which the ] Dody was found was a veritable arse { nal. Explosives and materials for
 making them and various weapons l were found in the place
 l The death of Gardstein narrowed the chase down to a hunt for four men and it was finally reduced to a
 pursuit of three: Fritz, Yourka and ! Peter the Painter
 Q Peters Cousin Was Killed. The first named was Fritz Svaar. a f cousin of Jake Peters. On January g. ISll' SVaar and a man supposed to be ] Peter the Painter were found in 2 V house on Sidney Street, whitechapei d They were asleep when the place was u surrounded. The other tenants of the l, building were induced to leave quietly, and the police by throwing pebbles
 against the window of the room oc- : cupted by the two men awakened them. Then began a desperate siege q that lasted many hours
 Q The two men opened fire on the po-
 lice, who were armed with revolvers ' and rifles They retaliated. but made r little headway Both sides blazed t away at each other necessarily all l. | through the day and night, and at }. 1O:SO the following morning the Scots a NC
 Q Tower of London. The firing was still @ going on when Winston Churchill. e then Home Secretary arrived Half
 an hour after he had appeared on
 the scene smoke began to pour from
 Inc windows of the besieged house
 Not long afterward there was an ex-
 plosion that blew out all the windows
 and left the upper floors of the build
 ing blazing. Thus ended the famous
 Battle of Sidney Street"
 Bremen forced the front door and n gained entrance to extinguish the il blaze. Five firemen were injured bv q
 falling wall. The only other casualty S on the side of the authorities was a ; sergeant of the Scots Guard, who had 5. bullet in his leg
 Il Bodies of Bandits Found.
 The two men who had held the po-
 lice and soldiers at bay, however l. were found dead in the charred build ' Ing One of the bodies was identi- II ned as that of Syaar. Whether the U other really was Peter the Painter d is not known, for not long afterward $ a letter was received purporting to > come from him in which he said
 that he had not been responsible for Il any of the murders and had not Il perished in the explosion and fire. IL Four prisoners were tried at the y trial for burglary and conspiracy S. which followed. Of these only one 1T Nina Vasilleva. in whose home the 5s body of Gardstein was found. was g convicted. She was sentenced to two e years imprisonment. The others l. brought up on charges were Jake Pe- e ters, Dubof and Rosen.
 It After being acquitted Peters con- e tinued to serve as presser for a firm l. of wholesale dealers in North Lon e don by whom he was first employed u in 1909. He remained with then, l. until April, 1917. On May of tbat d year the London Russia delegate committee sent him to the Bolshevtl1 'e Foreign Office in Russias From n e post there he rose to the head of II the committee to suppress counter 2. revolutions
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