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on horseback, and some in a motor-car. The pur- 

 sued were chased for a distance of five miles, making 

 their way towards Epping Forest. In the course of 

 their reckless flight, they boarded an electric tramway, 

 fired at and wounded some of the passengers, and one 

 of them compelled the driver to proceed at a rapid 

 pace by holding a revolver at his head. While this 

 one was thus engaged at the front of the car, the other 

 was at the rear, and in an indiscriminate fashion was 

 firing right and left. At a certain point they left the 

 car, which they then believed to be nearing a police- 

 station, and boarded a milk-cart, which they drove 

 in another direction at a furious pace. This they 

 ultimately left, and then took to the fields. Soon 

 after this one of the two was brought to bay, and he 

 shot himself, but not mortally ; he was taken 

 prisoner, and subsequently died from meningitis in a 

 hospital. The other effected his escape by an almost 

 superhuman effort, and finally took refuge in a small 

 house. Here he was at last shot by one of the police- 

 men who had taken part in the chase and who had 

 borrowed a revolver. 



In the course of this bloody fracas, a policeman 

 and a small boy were shot dead and twenty-three 

 persons were wounded. One important moral we 

 may draw from this event : The civically unfit under 

 an autocratic regime are similarly unfit under a 

 democratic one, even though it be pervaded with a 

 benevolent sentiment. But the autocratic regime 

 knows how to get rid of them, and the democratic 

 one how to receive them. 



