A ghastly murder is alleged to have been committed on Wednesday morring in broad daylight on} Pootung Koad, a branch ai "ukong{ Road, near the No, 2 Railway Gate, Chapei.
Heports of the affair are very meagre but we have been able to secure the following, unconfirmed statements from Chinese in the vicinity.
appears that a Korean dressed in foreign style (said to be naturalized as a Chinese: citizen) was walking towards the railway line, from North to South, when suddenly several (some reports say two and others three) men stepped in front of him and fired several shots hitting him on the head and various parts of the body. His assailarkts scattered. and made off, escaping through the numerous alleyways in the vicinity.
The body was left. lying where it fell and it was not until late in the afternoon that it was removed by the Chinese police authorities.
Investigations followed immediately but up to a late hour lad: night no arrests had been made. Further inquiries will be continued to-day.
The scene of the shooting affray ison Chinese territory and 2 policemen is generally stationed about 100 yards away. A number of Koreans live in the vicin which is but a short distance away from the old Eldorado Bar, which was closed last year following the shooting of a young foreigner.
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