The murder of a tramear motorman in Avenue Road a few minutes before midnight on Monday, brief particulars of which appeared in Yesterday's "North-China Daily ews," hax caused no small amount of consternation, which occasions no surprise now that more complete details are known than it was possible to gather at such a Tete hour That the murder had been eared fully planned is most obvious and hat it was perpetrated not from motive of revenge against the victim, but as part of a general Scheme of intimidation is almost equally plain. The murdered man had remained loyal to the Company and had been at work for the greater part of June and July, when the strike was at its height, but from what can be gathered, he was fan inoffensive man who took things very philorophieally and wished only to work and to be left alone, rreither seeking to influence his fellows against the foreigner, nor expressing himself forcibly against those engineering the strike. He] was driving one of the railless cars the depot at the conclusion of its spell on the roads and for some distance it was not carrying any passengers. On its entering Avenue 34 Road, four Chinese boarded it subsequent happenings suggesting that they were associates, for three sat together near the door of the first class compartment, behind driver, whilst the fourth took sent against the rear door in the second class section.
A Dastardly Plot As the car ran into one of the loss frequented sections of Avenue Road, one of the three behind the Griver stood and with a 32 up calibre automatic pistol fired at him at point blank range and he dropped dead immediately. How close the assassin was may lanquin on the right were exhibited the victim's blood-by the gate, for is explained that the opening mechanism is of a ferent pattern to. that on the ordinary cars and is not easy to Tocate, #0 they argue that the four—or certainly one of them—had previously been in the company's service, No. arrests have been made.
The Inquest An inquiry into the cause of death of the motorman, whose rame was La Zang-zau was subsequently opened at the Mortuary before Messrs Hamilton (Ameri Assessor) and Han (Chinese Magi trate). The story as given above was recapitulated by Det. Inspector MeDermott, Set. MeGregor and the conductor of the tramear on which the outrage occurred. Deceased! wife stated that her husband had never received any threatening Tetters and that he had had nothing to do with the strikers.
A verdict to the effect that deceased met his death as the result of a bullet fired by a passenger on the tram car of which deceased was the driver was returned.
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