At the Guildhall Police Court on Monday Mr. Bodkin out-
lined the case for the Crown against the five prisoners brought up in connexion with the Houndsditch murders. The three men, Josef Federof, Jacob Peters, and Yourka Dubof, are charged with being concerned in the murder of the three police officers, and the two women, Luba Milstein and Sara Rosa Trassjonski, with being accessories after the fact, and all five are alleged to have been concerned in a long- concerted and carefully planned attempt at burglary at the premises of Mr. Harris, a Honndsditch jeweller. He then sketched the history of the prisoners, dwelling on the relation- ship of Fritz Svaars with Jacob Peters, the visits of Peters --and Dubof with Fritz and Josef (the two men who perished at Sidney Street) to an Anarchist club, and their frequent meetings at 59 Grove Street, where Fritz, Luba Milstein, and Peter the Painter all lodged. He then described the antecedents of Gardstein, his visits to the workshop of an engineer who was experimenting with a mixture of oxygen and coal gas, the occupation of the houses in Exchange Buildings, and the association there of the three male prisoners with Fritz, Peter the Painter, and Gardstein.
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