Anarchy in the UK

Mark Glanville

THE SIEGE OF SIDNEY STREET WAS THE finale of a three-act, real-life London drama. It began on 23 January 1909 with the Tottenham Outrage, the payroll robbery of a rubber factory during which its two perpetrators were killed alongside a policeman and a child. Act Two, on 16 December 1910, involved the failed robbery of a Jewish-owned jeweller’s in Houndsditch that led to the killing, by gunshot, of three police officers and the serious wounding of two others. This was “the most grievous single incident in the history of London’s police”, according to this book, unmatched until Harry Roberts’s murder of three policemen in 1966. 100 Sidney Street, where two of the Houndsditch robbers were holed up, was the scene of the drama’s dénouement, on 3 January 1911. By its end…

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