Name: The Tottenham Outrage and Walthamstow Tram Chase: The Most Spectacular Hot Pursuit in History
Brand: Waterside Press
SKU: 9781909976405
Price: 265.33 HKD
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Author: Geoffrey Barton
ISBN: 9781909976405

The Tottenham Outrage and Walthamstow Tram Chase: The Most Spectacular Hot Pursuit in History

By Geoffrey Barton

Waterside Press January 2017

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ISBN-13: 9781909976405
Publisher: Waterside Press
Publication: January 2017
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

Details

Not since the days of highwaymen and footpads had armed robbery been seen in London. Geoffrey Barton explains the political backdrop to the arrival in the UK of armed revolutionaries driven by their own frenzied missions, causing citizens to go in fear.

Laws were passed to deal with aliens and terrorism but as the author explains the civil police were ill-equipped to deal with the problem. Although well known to local people, the Tottenham Outrage of 1909 when two Latvian robbers, Jewish refugees, intercepted a payroll has been comparatively hidden to the wider world (unlike the notorious Siege of Sydney Street which took place two years later).

Resulting in the most spectacular police pursuit in history it involved a hundred police officers and up to a thousand citizens in running to ground two desperate police killers. The book follows every inch of the six-and-a-half miles and minute of the two-and-a-half hours of the chase. It also pays minute attention to the people and places involved as well as the aftermath.