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ought rather to be an iconoclastic fact ever fresh in 

 our memories. Whenever it is recalled it will 

 probably be spoken of as the " Tottenham slaughter." 

 Posterity quickly forgets. In a twelve- months' time 

 the affair will have sunk into oblivion, in company 

 with a great many more unpleasant facts that ought 

 likewise to be remembered. Let me, therefore, 

 record its essential details. A Russian outlaw had 

 sought the hospitality and protection of English laws. 

 He had lived in this country apparently for some 

 months, but for a fortnight of this time he had been 

 employed in an English factory at Tottenham, but 

 gave up the work " because it was too hard." During 

 the interval he had learned that the wages for the 

 employes were brought from the bank in a motor-car 

 at half-past eleven o'clock every Saturday morning. 

 On the Saturday morning of January, the 23rd, 1909, 

 this outlaw, in company with a companion, who was 

 similarly an Anarchist outlaw from Russia, waited at 

 the appropriate hour outside the entrance to the 

 works. Both men were armed with revolvers and 

 with pocketfuls of cartridges. Their intention, there- 

 fore, was quite clear and premeditated. As soon as 

 the messenger had alighted from the car with the bag 

 of money, it was seized by one of the desperadoes, 

 and in the struggle which ensued the messenger was 

 fired at and wounded. The assassins then made off, 

 and endeavoured to clear a path of escape for them- 

 selves by indiscriminate and wild firing, right and 

 left of them. The hue and cry was raised, and chase 

 was given. Some of the pursuers were on foot, some 



