The Archive · 1925

Shooting at Cotton Mill

Another sensational robbery in which Sikh watchman. was serie ously wounded was committed -on Wednesday evening at the Poo Yih No, 2 Cotton Mill, Robison Toad.

Nine men' of whom four larined. with revolvers and. the reclining on an. easy chair. robbers demanded the keys of the place. "On the Sikh refusing to hand them over, he was struck with an iron bar. When he again refused two shots were fired at itn, one of which entered his neck, Although another Sikh watchman appeared on. the scene he proved unable to prevent the gang from opening a box in the. watehmen's lodge and possessing themselves of {#200 in money and jewellery.

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

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