A fracas attended with fatal results took place on Monday afternoon on the Standard Oil Co.'s Pootunz property. Durins the absence of Mr. Bentley, the chief wharfinger, a gang of Chinese bout twenty-five strong, well-known 6n the Pootung side for their methods of ex-tertian and piratical tendencies, demanded from te head coolie of the Company's godowns a sum of money, and as they were unable to squeeze it from him they knocked him to the ground with a hard instrument, probably the butt of revolver as many of them were armed. The other coolies immediately called on the assistant wharfinger, who, on making his appearance, was surrounded by the gang. In the meantime Mr. Bentley, who had been sent for, arrived, when one of the gang deliberately drew his revolver and fired three times, one of the bullets grazing the coat of the assistant wharfingerand lodging itself in the breast of one of the scoundrel who immediately fell to the groun: Seeing this the others decamped. Shortly afterwards the tipao of the district who is believed to be in league with the gang, and who is in the habit of advising the people living in the district to buy their peace from the ruffians, called on Mr. Bentley to know what had hup-pened, whereupon the wharfinger quiet locked him in a spare ro and sent to the Yangtsepoo Station for assistance. On the arrival of the Police Auchorities to whom great praise is due for their prompt intervention, Mr. Bentley gave his prisoner upond he was immediately conveyed across the river under arrest, and is to be brought before the Mixed Court on Wednesday morning. Fearing a second visit from the gentry, who are believed to be the same that recently made the raid on the Inj rial Customs' dynamite store, besides commit. ting other outrages, including the kilim of one man, and the gouging of another's eye out, the Company's watchmen were armed, and a strict guard kept throughout the night; a precaution that was by no means unnecessary as some of the gang put man appearance at midnight and seeing how matters stood wisely retreated t" the dark hinterland. The wounded rufian was conveyed to St. Luke's hospital where he died of his injuries at noon on Tuesday. Icis reported that the miscreants, who serve under a man named Chang Chang-we, ut whose door some eight or nine murders are alleged, have an armed laager in the country within a short distance of the river, and that a systematic watch is kept to guard against any sudden ise. If such be tha case the s-oner the ies uproot them the better.
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