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An Eyewitness Account by George Mumford of a Battle Between 400 Police and the Scots Guards Against Two Armed Desperadoes
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They were thought t cutatedly. have free with the lentils don
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whadow and fired at random, to alisapja at promptly behind the egy window curtains.
Many shots were directed at the war dow of a house imme. No. 100 and diately opperilter presently we heard a hand crash From that direction The house And hand bes was untered perumed by the police since the previous day when striet watch 100 bad begun. To en- on Ne contrage the bandits To waste 124 12 sarestitaidon ( dummy for the other and ben
rigged Poppent way in from t DE: Was some wide w fus efor the ban th they had been tricked
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Enter the Guards
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lly this time about 50 police THE when one of the thiols shut.
chandeller
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The criminals, dummy. mostly armed
other hand, had ten-
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Up to 1,00 vasily outranging Pyolve. i ued to alsoût all
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hundreds of Stadions brought
cunstables
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MRC with rities. On all
Street WAS FU ides Sidney manded and all approaches to Churchill Was There were barted by lies of men
other
day, January 3. what
Beginted
The young woman of texty knocks spuls
She mother Inhibitet, nury honest."
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fresh, un-
But Mr Coburn, paring through the rigar smoke, con-
ame 0.1.8
Ixgn.
ور
behing the
mest that of alempat w into ite sep whevic,! street but no attempt was made to raise 1' to the windows of No, 100. Spordie shots were ex- changed between besiegen.s and besieged.
The most famous picture of Sidney Street-Winston Churchill (circled) round the the besieged house.
corner
peers towards
angle of 45 degrees, Others were pasted at the corners of Lindley Slot and Hawking Street, on cather side of Morin's Mansions, at somus Jay in Skine Street about 200 yards from the base, on a carpet of newspaper placards borrowed mom the front
- tunes were lighting up the of a nearby newsagent's.
lows from which the Immediately the soldiers criminals had been ing ad
lived a fusillal: a. the wine eventually
dows of the house and tho in the street began erawing neares, The tempt # repled and
Chick Gala-Sergeant
wis wowded in the leg by a buillet that glanced off a wall
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At 1.45 the unwanted machine Kun arrived: also inother squad the of Scots Guardg About
in Une the lava shot from the home, fired from a back room,
Th, when it wit evident that neither of the fugl- the cold have survive 4, the Bremen get their hoses to work.
Charred Bodies
AAR Churchill remained at the
Mch remain street
R Ears, late 20 die wae henne!
pes of Pewalk.wa Bay Jan V. furniture in Irma, of ghean
Txin tuli vaw I wr on- Jokers. Round all the windows by this time the brick work was DEALLYCA at the pavemen 154 Etered with gla {1:th Phattered window-ganes
Shortly before best u My Win- on Churchilt arrived and was the senior talking police offers in the group at The 1 of 305 Miret to my ught, trtain suggestion; were colored, I afterwards 'arni One
poller should Like mjet
10 enter the house 10- hind an improvised saleld. An- other was than a machine-gun should be employ si against the building.
WAS
House On Fire
the
Suddenly, at about 10 am, a shout of "Soklets" Went from the crowd and
annd thue
marched Inio Sidney Street young Lieutenant in blue,
In alt some 400 police
Ross and squad of about 20 officers
Cill duty.
They Scuts
Guardsmen from the S
out events turned kept busy holding back were
Tower of London. They were excited
problem rezolved itself in a of would-be crowus
armed wilb
bart different way. and
Almost exactly window pelators. Every
ntled cartridges. Quickly they were The neighbourhood TVILJ
divided into small parties and with women and girls crning disposed in positions whence their nee's to sex what they
they could direct their fee on could of the battle.
the door or windows,
In
Tessed that being surrounded by gut (then Mry Winston Chur- glamour girl in those Tycoon chill.
4 Hour Secretary, roles on the serven can become watched the battle and at the wearing
inques! rejecte "I was doing a dancing scene subsequent
viticism suggesting that he with Monroe, standing near and Boy-and had dieted" the siege.
The fugitives hide-out was in he gets puid, too! They didn't Martin's ManSNXIS, block of For a long time the street on
living. realise that it only a
"Mr eight tenements with a shop t Midnight chiment - but Coburn, who had to rise next ach end, I had a good view of it from the rout of the Rising morning act tive o'clock to Journey to the studios, seemed Sun nol to have heard it,
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IXED your days yet?"
Molly
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which 1 looked down appeared save for groups of deserted police officers at either end who kept well out of the line of hire. No. 100 Sidney Stree wus a But at Intervals one or other
house three-story
with two of the men come to a broken
Just
List
Filles
Half a dozen of them stationed in loft
IT
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were
at I p.m. a cull of black smoke was seen rising from the back of No. 100. A few minutes later the Fire Brigade arrived from
the Mile End Road station,
One of the officers approached Mr Churchl and the senior Mann, police officers. Then he Crossman's Brewery behind returned to his men and held ramparts of Llimber, From here them off; they stood watching
the attic i
they commanded a view of the the house us The fre spread upper part of the house at an downwards from
SUMMER MADNESS
staziched our ears to
you we dki get togather of an even- but you'd have thought I'd done We tash didn't have too good a time last ing we couldn't oft down with something awful the way Ray's get the right wave length. to that out Ray going to sleep. So I family carried on. This Ricky Fortunately the headscarf's voice
"It's holi- bully.
year when other camp,
The Handscur! frowned. "That was because his family It was August
you went
I and were queueing outside our local cinema, and
after
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riching. the progress of the fire part of the house collapsed,
his car
Lu take He had lent
On its Serpt. Chick to hospital
he AUS pd
up In Hawks Street and driven back
the Home Office.
The Bremen found the charred bodies of two men, both apper- endly between 20 and 30 years
The post-mortem «xam- itation showed that one of them had been shot through the back of the head and Ba othia had tied from suffocation in the fire.
Fritz Svarts was one of them the man referred to as Fritz in the reward notice.
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The other was identified by a woman who had known bm Josef She said she Jud never known his sumame, He and Fritz, recording to statement, had come to hir room at No, 100 on the Sunday
Der
night and had kept her talking till midnight.
They refused her request fo be allowed to leave and thren. tened her with their fista and a revolver. She had had to take refuge in
another mom where the police found her when they
cleared the premises in the early hans of that Tuesday morning.
At The Inquest
the inquen
on the two men, held by Mr Wynne
the Bast
London
verdict
meant us walking about all the and me gol on fine until he told was of the carrying kind."
Baxter, first me I was wasted time with me holding him up.'
on Ray, It "by the end of the
Coroner. Mr Churchill, In The queue moved forward
be true,
but I wasn't week. The twas had pasty colds might
to criticism, sold little cnd I missed some of the going to stand for him calling through falling in the
swim reply
WDS acked whether he twenty minutes waiting in came with us.
and the comp wan crammed conversation, but soon picked up Ray a 'drip.
ming pool, Hay's sister and her he
concurred in the decision) a decidedly cold cast wind, Ray had to share a chalet w the thread of it again.
"Just
show to
off, Ricky husband weren't speaking be
hold back the firemen and he Alis brother-in-law,
bought himself a it seemed incredible that his father,
over my swimsuit His challenged Ray to three straight cauze he'd
next
had merely expressed didn't like it, and said sols at tennis. Ray's not keen on glass of beer with the
agence. anyone in the small crowd and a man called Cluich, who mother
played the flute. What with the
week's housekeeping money, ment that that was the best could be interested in any flute-playing and the other two
and Ray's dad had broken his course.
plata
blow-footboll. The Jury returned playing thing other than getting at their speelat brand of puu-
"It didn't toon half the night, Ray never
make for good of "Justinable Homicide," They the inside in
Warm. turned my head to look at got any proper sleep the whole she felt sure Ray didn't, and the game really, and he lost relations, so to speak, and there added a rider expressing the
fortnight.
what were giris coming to you the first sat six-love before he was a chilly atmosphere in our hope that more stringent laws the speaker-a girl wearing "Not that I had everything my know the sort of thing. Ty let his
racket slip out of his chalet, boonuse I'd accidentally would be framed to govern the Britain of knitted cup, deep in own way. There was Ray's
crimina conversation with another mother, his sister, and his sister's woke up for once and defended hand and fetched Ricky a fear dried my hands on Ray's mum's
but, trying to be gallant, he ful smack. By the time Ricky vast. I felt so miserable, it was or
that, ono,cf tho babkay sharing with me, only made things worse. Said I came round, there were about caly he thought of the fancy- girl, sporting a spotted twin
anxk, it
was very hard to lock wasn't the kind to depend on syventy people walling to use dress dance on the last night dead men was the notorious headscarf.
the Painter the polica glamorous with us all dressant fancy clothes-I looked nice in the court, so the game had to that kept me it?" ask- were disappointed,
"And did you enjoy nothing. There was a bit of a be abandoned, I suppose It Wed the friend "Yo-weeks ago said the shoulder to shoulder, beadscarf.
The Sidney Stroet casualties "Wonderful hoilday Not that Ray noticed what I mistandortanding all around., on accident, but you can "It was lovely! 1 wont as a included,
never tell with Ray-ho's pretty camp. Got everytiting-dancing, looked like he was too worn-
brosides Police Sergt. "ballerina-ever so probly - my Ledson, and Sorgt. Chick, Ave swimming, tennie, concerts, out. Fell asleep at dinner the
"After that, I got a bit friend- good at winning a coconut,"
• old while satin blouse with tho constables and three civilian gomed
second day with his head, in his "Going with Ray?"
"His father and brother-in Ricky mashing donors and the queue moved forward an- looves cut out, and grands seul spectators, all with alight bullet yards of butter" malda for the wounds, and six firemen - in- "Course I am. Any objccato trine it was, I remember: 1y with another fellow called
law kopt chaffing him about, dead keen on tennis, Mind you, it
"akiet." Well, two yords actually, jured by falling dökels, "I hope we don't miss the end “**** I was only making in a friend- koeping late hours Y Bourding. I only partnered him because
(Contd. on Page 19 Col. 9).
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