One of the most daring robberies with violence that have ever been carried out i Shanghai tok place Inst Monday at about 7 o'clock, the building selected by the desperadoes being the Chartered Mercantile Bank of India, London avd China which is situated on tite Bund, It appears that at about the hour above named, some three or four men went to the com pradore's office at the basement of the Baul and enquired of the watclinan if there was anyone inside. 'The watchman, aupposi they were customers, answered in the negative, though thers were really two people, the watchman and the compradors' book-heaper who was making up his acdistance ded. by iron bars, the gates bei ig told thery was no one went out, and no suspicion was ved of their being anything but A short time after this, it mber of noiselessly taken charge of the yates, some remained to guard it from the outside, while others of them ndveed towards the watchman whom they imuuedintely wized. They th awed uring " knife at his throat, isters at him, Ureatening im if he attempted to give th alarm, Having thus overpowered the watch some of the others advanced to the -kexpor and one of them atruck him with a osrrying bamboo, hitting him over the head, wid inflicting an ugly wound, He too was overpowered!, and then the rob-who turned out to be Tientsin men, enced to ransack the place, They hard to make the watch id book. Keeper divulge where the money was kept, but did not snooved. hey pulled open number of drawers in search of plunder, and found nothing, till they came accuse axfo—auch as is in tse in Chinese al Here the robbers appoxr to. hn under the impression that they had fowtud the treasure, sy they hastily burst it open and found, not a box full of aycve, but some strings of cash. Throwing the cash aside, they seized some hundred dollars which were on a table at which the book-Keeper had been sitting, and decamped, Dut npparautly before they could yot out, the buck-keeper raised the alarm, Our reporter " fow minutes afteewaris saw the book-keeper, who said he had followed the mou ito the afreet, and that as avon as he round and fired three any injury. The ficing of the shots deow the attention of the police and people passing by, and they ran forward tu ace what was the matter, The robbers now took to their heels and ra along the Bund and up Kiukiang Road, vue otice, tiring shots as f they could, while number of people followed them, three of them being policemen, 'I'he robbera turned down Szschuen Road, and at the corner of this and Nanking' and met a Sikh Policeman, No. 90 who headed them off so they ran up Nanking Rond firing their pistols all the time. No. 90 struck one aman with his fist and Knocked him down and while drawing his baton, the robber fired at him, the bullet riy between his lege, fortu riber of foreigners following. The police were blowing their whistles, and Sergeant Smith who was out jond heard them and retreating rubbers got as far as Kiangse Boad where there was another Sikh on duty, and here it was that Sergeant Suith came up to one of the man who was Sting pistole off under his arms, while others wore loading fresh weapons for him. When the Sergea: to seize this individual, th d round and pre-soured two pistols at him, but the Sergeant wat too quick for him and knocked him down, and tuck them from him before he could fire them off. Here there appears to have been a scene ut considerable cou-fusion, for the Sergeant tumbled over the man and falling on top, knocking all the ind out of him, while the Chinese policemen in attempting to get hold of the robber, grabbed at the Sergeant instead, leaving the rest of the deeper-devs who disappeared down Kiangse Read; the tive policemen, apparently not cann to risk being shut, did not follow them. One Chinese policeman Nu, 253 was allot at, but the bullet did not enter his flesh though it lodged in his thick cotton waist cunt." he two mon who had been captured were then conveyed tv the Central Police Station. They wore placed in the dock ons by one and exmniued, but the first steadfastly refused to ay where they come from or who ennposed the gai. The second man stated that th nil come in a boat which was the Szschnen Road jetty on the Souchow Creek. This mau was taken by a p of aruied policemen and two native detectives to show where the boat was, and our reporter went with them, but who they your to the Svochow Creek, th man said the buat was not there, After a good deal of questioning, he finally stated that the boat was up wear Siuzy somewhere. The gony, id, bad had their midday meal, and then had walked into Shanghai, waiting till dusk to aback the Bank, On returning to the Ceuteal Police Station, owe reporter found the first robber being again examined, and the informa.
elicited was to the effect that the gang to which he belonged had started from Yang Chow, " town some thirty-tive miles from Chinkiang, where they arrived on the 23ed of last month, They then started to walk to Shanghai, arriving at sume place nar Sivza on Monday, Further information by refused to give, 90 he was lucked up. This man wou a mal thy looking fellow, the other the A Superintendent was informed of the robbery, he tonk energetic measures to capture some more of the rubbers. All the Stations were telephoned to and informed of what had lippened, while ollicers and men were sent out tu all directions, Tue Mixed Curt BMagiatrato despatched some of lus ruunere along with Insp-ctor Everlyigh to Jessfield to intercept any buate that might be returning to the country, but they returned on Tuesday mooning not having ben successful.
Goat excitement was manifested in thy Settlements when the news yot abroad of the robbery, and Chiness could be seen little knots talking over the matter in front of their shops; ® large crowd collected ow the Bund, and lingered about long time, while iw Station, it was almost impossible tw get through thy crowd, we of the pistols that the robbers had carried were found, one was landed and the other fired off. Under their long clothes they hid thole ud ammunition. Chess pistols were antiquated horse pistols, with bore of about ove inch in diameter. the powder was made up into cartridges and with the bullets were much tov small for the pistols.
A native policeman who witnessed the attack on the Bank summoned all the police on the Buud to his assistance, and wile he was doing ay, the robbers ran away. The native policemen followed them, and it while cluing so that No. 253 was slut A foreigner who joined in the hue and cry mas also shot at, the bullet slightly geazing one of his legs. Me. Polite took some fifty-eight dollace from the robber that Seryeant Smith captured and handed th to the Police. The Bank watchman an the book-keeper state that there were from eighteen to twenty robbers, but the native policemen are unanimous in their statement that there were only twelve.
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