An attempted double murder of two brothers took place in the Settlement and the French Concession last Friday night, when a gang of 15 men, failing in their demands for blackmail, tried to carry out their threats' against the Wong from cuts in the throat, the younger 'Wong, was found in to the Wayside district on Friday evening at nine o'clock. The police ambulance took him to St. Luke's Hospital, where Insp. Crookdake desired to get a statement, but as the poor man could not' talk, he made signs and His brother He said that he was kidnapped from his home at 281 Rue Blunt-chili two months ago and had been kept in confinemertt in a house on East Yuhang Road. While in the operating theatre he by signs made it clear to the police that the gang had chloroformed and then out his throat. After the gang made off he managed to crawl from the house.
'A large number of police then visited the house and found that then tenants had made a hurried exit, The one room showed signs of violence—a blood-stained bed, bottle of chloroform and a Chinese been placed to guard arrested one man at midnight. He could not enter by the front door, 50, as he went into the back alley way, the officers arrested him in the cul-de-sac. Two choppers were found on him. When the party got out "to East Yuhang Road, three men in ricshas, seeing that an arrest had been made, fled, and left behind them a box and severs packages of The police believe that the gang thought their victim dead and had detailed some of their number to cover the deceased with this sugar.
The prisoner has been handed over to the French police who wish to make inquiries about the kidnapping The Chinese press in an account of the attempted murder reported that the elder brother had received 4 letter in which the gang demand-a toan of $200,000. When he paid no attention to the demands, the gang took revenge on both the kidnapped and free brother.
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