It appears that the two men, who came from Riga,
were both members of an extreme revolutionary society which has its headquarters in London, and that Hefeldt had for a while been employed in the rubber works at Tottenham The inquests held on Tuesday furnished abundant evidence of the desperate character of the outrage, and of the unflinching deter- mination and courage shown by the police and those of the public who assisted them in the chase. Police-Constable Tyler, who lost his life in the discharge of his duty, was an exception- ally efficient and promising officer of exemplary character, and the appeal which has been issued by the chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Sir Albert de Rutzen, on behalf of his young widow, ie, we are glad to see, already meeting with a liberal response. In this context the Daily Telegraph has done a useful service by quoting the official statistics of the injuries received by the Metropolitan Police in the execution of their duty,—the total casualties for 1907 amounting to no fewer than three thousand one hundred and thirty-four, two thousand one hundred and eighty-two coming under the head of "assaulted by prisoners or injured when making arrests." The funeral of Police- Constable Tyler on Friday was attended by a firing-party of the Royal Garrison Artillery, in which he served for several Years, contingents from each division of the Metropolitan Police—two thousand in all—Sir Edward Henry, the Chief Commissioner of Police, Mr. H. Samuel, M.P., representing the Home Office, and representatives of the municipal bodies of Tottenham and Edmonton. The King, we note, has sent a special message expressing his sympathy with the widow and his appreciation of the gallant conduct of the police officers engaged in the pursuit of the murderers.
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