A number of the police took steel shiells, which they placed before them, amd in a manner resembling the attack of American Indians, gradually approached the house. Other police at their rear maintain:
a barrage.
On approaching the door, they rushed the house. The inmates surrendered without further resist ance, When they released the kid-rappers' captive, he became almost hysterical and: refused to leave Det.-Sergt. Tabrum.
One of the gang attempted to escape, having jumped from a window. The police fired at hi As he took a step, a bullet, struck him in the ankle. When he put his foot on the ground he collapsed and rolled over two or three times. Three pistols ud 17 rounds of n_were taken by the police, The kidnapped man, formerly a millionaire from later a magistrate in Tsingpoo, lives at 433 Burkill Road. Last Wednesday as he left his house, four armed men stopped the motor-ear, ejected Hthe chauffeur, and drove off into the French Concession, where the car was found later. The gang wrote two letters to the family warning them that, if they notified the police, they (the gang) would Kill their victim and come to his Hence and murder the household.
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