Download or read book The Mystery of Peter the Painter The Story of the Houndsditch Murders the Siege of Sidney Street and the Hunt for Peter the Painter Peter Piatkow As Told to the Crimes Club Our Society Etc With Plates and Facsimiles written by John Percy Eddy and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Mystery of Peter the Painter written by John Percy Eddy and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Houndsditch Murders written by Donald Rumbelow and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2016-09-23 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In December 1910, an armed gang of Latvian revolutionaries attempted to rob a jeweller's shop in Houndsditch, in the City of London. In their escape, they killed three policemen and crippled another two. After a manhunt of nearly three weeks, police were tipped off by an informant that two of the gang were hiding in a house in Sidney Street, in London's East End. So began the siege and a gun-battle involving both the police and the army, and more controversially Home Secretary Winston Churchill, which ended with a burning house and two dead gunmen. The final twist was to come with the release of the man who killed three English policemen and lived to become a mass murderer under Lenin and Stalin as head of the all-powerful Soviet Cheka. Donald Rumbelow has drawn upon rare documentary and eyewitness material, including files unavailable to previous historians, to present a lucid and exciting account of these extraordinary events and of the trial that followed. The result is all the more remarkable when one realises that the author rescued all the contemporary police documents and photographs about this case from destruction.
Download or read book The Houndsditch Murders the Siege of Sidney Street written by Donald Rumbelow and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
