Party of Four Alleged Outlaws Taken by Police After a Brisk Encounter A search party, consisting of Sgt. Campbell, a Sikh Havildar, two Sikh lconstables_and two Chinese stables, whilst on duty on Monday evening, were informed by a coolie! employed at. 1090 Sinza Road that) four Chinese, one of whom was armed with a pistol, were robbing the shop. As the party approached, the robbers bolted and one of them wa shot by Sikh P. C. 449 as he wa jumping over the counter. Sgt, Campbell, with the assistance of Sikh P."C. 433 and the Chinese Jconstables, gave two others no jehance to escape and managed to jer and to arrest them, but! the fourth member of the gang, understood to have been the armed. man,/got away into the Gordon Road District, although the Havildar fired four shots after him. No Pedestrians or police were injured.
About $21, which was the amount taken, was found on the persons of the two arrested men and scattered about the front of the shop, being thrown there by the robbers in their attempt escape arrest. The wounded robber was taken to hospital where he was detained.
Later information was received at about 8 o'clock to the effect that Chinese giving his name as Koh 'Woo-sung, 2 native of Shaobsin had been' taken to the Shantung Road Hospital by two friends suffering from.a bullet wound in the right shoulder. Thinking this man might be the escaped robber, the police went to the Hospital with the complainant and an assistant. The latter there identified the wounded man as resembling the man who had the pistol, and said that his-clothes were similar to those worn by the man who held' up the inmates of the shop. This man was also detained.
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