A most deliberate murder took place in the Lowa district in the early hours of Sunday morning. A native living at 53, Swatow Road reported at the Police Station at about 230 a.m. that a shot bad been fired at a man living in his house. Detectives were soon on the spot, and found a man known as Hassan Goolab lying in pool of blood in the compound of this house, with several wounds about the body. Ho was at once taken on an ambulance to the Shantung Road Hospital, where the native doctor who was in charge, pronounced that lif) was extinct. Deceased was a British subject, the son of Indian apd Chinese parents and a native of Kiukiang. His wife, a Kompo woman, said that about 2 a.m. several natives knocked at the door of her house, and demanded admission. Her husband opened the door, and was shot at by someone outside in Foochow Road. He tried to regain the entrance, bat Before doing so ne was shot at several times, and he failed to open the door which had been closed behind him. A woman standing at the door of No. 336, Foochow Road was wounded by one of these shots. She was promptly sent off to the Shantung Road Hospital for treatment.
The body was removed to the Shantung Road mortuary, where it was examined by the Coroner and Dr. Marsh on Sunday. The murdered man had several brothers and sisters in Shanghai. The police have so far no dus to the identity of the murderers.
Facts already ance. (point to a deliberately planned muner, carried out under the most brutal—circumstaness. The borly, when—seen on Monday at the Mortuary, bore 10 fewer than seven wonnids—one Y}a slight flesh wound in the left arm. two others in the back, no exit, and four in the loft leg, which was practically shattered. The wounds were evidently sed by bullets from weapons of different calibre, three at least, and the fragments of spent bullets discovered also bear witness to the fact that there must have been several assailants.
The house where the tragedy occurred is numbered 53 in Swatow Road, but on that side it opens on to a native alleyway, and the front is really to Foochow Road, on the southern side near the Race Course and. It is an ordinary native house, the last but one in a row. The narrow wooden door from the street has the marks of two recently-nade, gimlet holes as though an endeavour had been made to tamper in this way withi the lock and effect an entrance without the inmate's knowledge. But whether attracted by the noise of this manceuvre, Chinese, who always wore foreign clothes about the Settlement. Ho was, it is said, at one time a member of the famous Kolaohui Secret Society, and during the Boxer troubles was arrested in the interior as one of the malcontents who were making mischief. Afterwards he severed his connection with the Society and suspicion points in that direction and to revenge as a motive explain the murder. There will be, no doubt, a most searching inquiry, but the fact that such a murder can take place in the heart of the Settlement once more raises the question of the advisability of arming our foreign police officers with something more effective than a truncheon. None of them, as it happened, was in the immediate locality at the time of the murder, but a single unharmed foreigner would not under any circumstances have stood much chance ith a gang of desperados such as appour to have been concerned in this case.
The body was removed from the mortuary on Monday and interred accord ing to the Mohamedan rites,
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