Monument to PC William Tyler

Found via a search of Historic England's own listings for the word 'murdered'. William Tyler (1877-1909) was a City of London policeman shot dead during the 'Tottenham Outrage' of 23 January 1909 - an armed wages robbery at the Schnurmann rubber factory by two Latvian immigrant revolutionaries, Paul Helfeld and Jacob Lepidus, which turned into a two-hour, six-mile chase through North London involving stolen trams and around 400 rounds fired. Tyler was killed while trying to arrest the pair; a ten-year-old boy, Ralph Joscelyne, was also shot dead, and both robbers ultimately killed themselves rather than be caught. Tyler and Joscelyne had a joint funeral attended by an estimated half a million mourners, including 2,000 police officers, and the bravery shown by police during the pursuit led directly to the creation of the King's Police Medal. Worth noting with care: contemporary press coverage of the case (and a similar, later 1910 robbery-murder by other Latvian immigrants that led to the Siege of Sidney Street) was widely antisemitic, reflecting - and worsening - hostility toward Jewish immigrants in Edwardian London; that context is part of the documented history of the case, not a view endorsed here.