Chou En-jung, better known to. foreigners as "Chita," a family nickname designating the "seventh on," was born in Tientsin in 1808. He started life in a cash shop, but later become a student under General Yin Chang in the Military College, which once occupied the site of the present Russian Park.
Chou joined the British police force in 1890 and his native ability and military training soon gained him promotion. Coming of an influential family and of a good personality and education, he was able to mix upon equal terms with the highest native officials. He was usually well-informed as to current political affairs, is death was a loss to the Police department, for he was considered to have a full conception of police and detective duties. One of his biggest successes was the tracking down for nine months of the munlerer of Mr. and Mrs. Gumpert. Chou finally had the man arrested! in Changsha, Hunan, and brought back to Tientsin for trial
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