A further report was made to the Police at 6.10 am, that robbers were still on the roof. A Chinese policeman saw a man running along the house top and endeavoured to climb a Ladder to get to the roof, but the man hurled tiles and bricks at him and he was forced to de-send. Two foreign constables, however, in the meantime had got. up on the other side of the house and, thinking that the man was an armed robber, opened fre and wounded him in the stomach. The man was removed to hospital, but was pronounced dead upon arrival. The deceased was searched, but nothing was found on him, In the locality where the affair took place, robberies occurred very. frequently and the residents of the neighbourhood were terrorized, De. ceased may have only been a thief, or possibly a member of a gang of. armed robbers who had got on to the roof after an alarm had been raised, A verdict was returned that deceased died from gunshot wounds inflicted by the Police whilst resisting arrest.
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