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Show SENSATIONAL ATTEMPT AT ROBBERY ENDS IN DEATH OF FIVE PERSONS Two Italians, Formerly Employed in Rubber Factory, Make Effort to Steal Money Bag They Fire When Pursued by Crowd, Killing Three, and Wounding Twenty, and, When Surrounded, Commit Suicide London, Jan. 23. Fivo persons aro dead and more than twenty others are in hospitals at Walthamstow, a suburb, su-burb, as ihe result of a sensational attempt at robbery made today by two Italians at Howarby. The Italians were run down and surrounded by a posse and flually committed suicide, j Three of their victims, including a policeman, po-liceman, ami a young boy, Ho dead. Two policemen and three boys are among the wounded. The Italians had been employed in a rubber factory, but having . been discharged, they planned to revenge themselves on their employers. They lay in wait at the factory and seized a bag of money containing the week's pay of all the hands. They then started start-ed on a mad rush down tho street. The police were summoned and started start-ed in pursuit in a motor car. As they approached the Italians, the robbers rob-bers opened fire with automatic pistols pis-tols on their pursuers. A number ot men and, boys on the street were 6hot down. The Italians kept ahead of the automobile aut-omobile until they came up with a trolley car. This they boarded and forced the drivers to throw on full speed. The car went thundering down tho track with the police automobile in pursuit. Near Tottenham marshes, the Italians Ital-ians made the moborman slow down and Jumping from the car, they sought a position in the marshes for their last stand. By this time, the police had been jolr.ed by several hundred laboring men. Together, the pursuers advanced advanc-ed upon the robbers, the police in the van. The Italians were hard pressed. They saw their positldn was hopeless, and after the cxchange.of a lew shots, tbey turned their weapons upon themselves them-selves and committed suicide. |