For some time past the bad characters who have won for Pootung so unenviable n have been growing in audneity, of them, at lea 1 of the most fiendish atrocity.
Thursday evening -the police were formed that a man had been attacked and wounded on the Pootung side of the river, near the New Dock. Officers were at once dispatched t" the scene, and they found an unfortunate coolie, aged about 23 years, in a deplorable plight. Tie had been attacked by three men, A both of his eyes were cut out. 'The police had the poor fellow removed to St. Luke's Hospital, and the doctor in charge deseriles the' fearful mutilation as having been very denly executed. Save for hi shocking deprivation the ed no other injury. From sh: can learn the perpetrators of the horrible deed are unknown to the man they attacked, but information from another source' will, it is to he hoped, soon lead-to their arrest. Detective-Inspector Armstrong has the case in hand.
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