Another armed robbery in Bub bling Well district occurred late on Wednesday night, resulting in the shooting of two men, one fatally.
that a number of men, armed with From the details to hand, it acre cie automatic pistols, entered an exchange shop near the Tsang Ka-zah alleyway, off Carter Road. They threatened the inmates, and stole about 8195 in money.
A man and his wife, hearing shouts of "fire," rushed out of their house and when approaching the shop, the man suddenly fell and complained of great pain. His wife, who had up to that time no knowledge that robbers were in the vicinity, thought that her husband had slipped on the wet pavement, and that the report she heard was the explosion of a cracker in the exchange shop. On examining him, however, she found that he had been shot, and he died very shortly afterwards, A man in the exchange shop was also shot, but his wound is not dangerous. After leaving the shop, the robbers made off to the westward, and although a search was made for them by the police, they were not discovered.
An inquest was held on the body of the deceased man at the Mixed Court on Thursday morning before Mr. F. T. Johnson, American Assessor, and Magistrate Nieh. It transpired that the man was employed in Neil's bakery, and it is not known how he was shot.
Detective Sergt, Sullivan said thet according to the statement of the man-who was wounded in the shop, five robbers entered. They told him not to make 4 noise, and immediately one of them fired at him.
A verdict to the effect that the deceased was shot by robbers was returned.
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