The Archive · 1921

670 Boone Road

It appears that shortly after 7 p.m., while the occupants of the house were having dinner, the premises were entered by two men armed with automatic revolvers, one coming into the dining room while the other kept guard at the door. One of the occupants of the house, Chang Pau-doo, made a rush for the man at the door and seized one of his revolvers, but the robber shot him in the chest with the other. In the meantime, the other robber took two pairs of bangles from the women in the room and as he made his way out of the room fired nine shots, one of which struck a woman named Wong Zo-sze below the left eye. The wounded man and woman were conveyed to St. Luke's Hospital, but the woman died on the way there and the man expired at one o'clock on Sunday morning. The woman is the' Coy mother of three children, one of whom is only one month old. The nolice found on the premises a Browning revolver of.32 calibre, which is now in their possession,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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