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

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Cover; Copyright and publication details; Table of Contents; England Will Not Forget; On and Off Duty: Faithful Unto Death; Acknowledgements; About the author; The author of the Foreword; Foreword by Mike Waldren QPM; Dedication; Latvia in 1909; Immigrants Abroad; Unrest Spreads Across Europe; Paul Helfeld and Jacob Lepidus; Tottenham and Walthamstow Old and New; Walthamstow; Tottenham Police Station; Police Equipment Then and Now; Recruitment and the Nature of Victorian Police Duties; Early Intelligence of an Industrial Dispute; Shots Amid the Morning Chaos; Weapons and Training.

Crime Prevention1920 Onwards ... ; Firearms Training ... and Mishaps; Sir Edward Henry Takes Over at the MPS; Pistols; Armed Robbery; More About Firearms ... ; The Participants; The Perpetrators; The Victims; The Arresting Officers; The Injured Officers; The Robbery; Inside the Police Station; On the Streets Outside ... and Schnurmann's Payroll; The Robbery; The Hue and Cry; The Nature of the Chase; Helfeld and Lepidus Try to Make their Getaway ... ; Towards The Marshes ... ; Firearms for the Police; Into The Marshes ... ; The Police Firearms arrive ... ; The Tram Chase; Back to the Street Chase.

Helfeld is CapturedLepidus is Cornered; The Claims; The Aftermath; The Inquests; The Funerals; Helfeld's Death in Hospital; What Did Happen to the Stolen Money?; Awards, Recognition and Words of Appreciation; And the Civilian Heroes?; Memorial Services; More Media Coverage and Commemorations; The Tottenham Outrage Today; Memorials; Appendices; Metropolitan Police Report; Email from Helen MacDonald, Manager of the Carnegie Hero Fund Trust to the Author; Route of the Chase; The Cast; Letter from the Russian Consulate; Statement of Thomas William Brown; Statement of Henry George North.

Statement of Mrs Eliza RolstoneReturn of Claims Made After The Outrage; Select References; Index; The Killing of Constable Keith Blakelock: The Broadwater Farm Riot.

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.

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