The trial of the prisoners charged with the murder of
policemen at Houndsditch, with being accessories after the fact, and with burglary, began at the Central Criminal Court before Mr. Justice Grantham on Monday. The Judge said that there was no evidence that Dubof or Peters fired any shot ; it would, therefore, be wiser to drop the charge of murder, and go on only with the charge of being accessories after the fact. The prisoners were then acquitted on the charge of murder. On Tuesday Dubof, Peters, and Nina Yassilleva were tried for being accessories after the fact. The Judge, again intervening, said that after going very carefully through the evidence of the previous day, he did not con- sider there was a case against the prisoners even on this count. He desired to say, however, that the case had been rightly committed to that court by the Alderman, and that the police had worked up the evidence most ably. The trial of Dubof, Peters, Nina Vassilleva, and a fourth prisoner, John Rosen, then proceeded on the charge of burglary.
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