ambling on the premises No. 500 Canton Road, at the comer of Canton and Hupeh' Roads, a gang of ruffians raided the premises with the intention of demanding blackmail or izing the money on the tables, The gambling party resisted and a fight ensued, in th which aman named Koo shot through the back of also stabbed in the right sid other man was also stabbed under the right shoulder-blade. The fired from the top of the one of the gange—either the gamblers or their assailanta—more retreating. The affray soon came under the notice of the police and on their arrival the iujure men were quickly sent to the Shantung Road Hospival, where the man who was shot about two ins murder in Chefoo Road. Ho was those days a well-known character, one of his appellations was "The King of the Kading Beggars", Instead of complying with the sentence of the Mixed Court and City Magistrates, it is ident that he found employment in ity and he to have boon recently employed by the City yamen runners as & second,
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