Plucky Conduct of Two Chinese Women A daring armed robbery took piaes at the home of Mrs, Loo Sun, Sr., mother of the managing: director of the Venus Life Insurance Ca. at 9 Yuyuen Road shortly after 7.15 o'clock on Saturday evening.
According to the occupants, ''between ten and 20 robbers, probably Kiangpeh countrymen," forced their way into the garden' through the front gate, some 30 yards away from the main entrance, which was locked at the time. Finding they could not gain an entrance through the front door, they went to the side of the house and tried the side entrance, which they were unable to open. Failing in this they clambered upstairs by a back, staircase, and entered the main building.
Hearing the noise they made, Mrs. Loo, Sr., who was in a room at the time, locked the door, opened the window and blew her police whistle for about '20 minutes."
As the house is between two! vacant lots of ground, there was no, immediate response to her calls. The robbers forced open the door, and knocked the old lady down with a blow on the head. From this lady they took away five gold rings and a pair of spectacles.
In the meantime, the maid-servant had crept downstairs to the telephone andi was about to give an alarm for the police. The robbers: heard the bell and went downstairs. Here they hit the servant and cut the telephone wires.
The only other occupants in the house were the daughter of Mrs Loo, Sr., a gardener, and a ricsha coolie. Both the former received bruises and it is alleged the last was carried away.
'According to the old lady, the robbers were all young men, evidently from the country, speaking the Kiangpeh dialect.' They carried hammers, knives, and sticks. They were dressed in blue dungaree clothes. She saw no pistols.
Mrs. C. P. Lunt, who lives at No. 92, states that she heard three pistol shots and police whistles. She gave the police the alarm but it was from ten to 15 minutes before they could arrive, by which time the robbers had broken down part of th fence on the west side of the house and decamp The Chinese police did not arrive until some 40 minutes later.
Up to the present no_ arrests have been made in connexion with the matter.
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