Sycee Coolie Shot by Motor Car Bandits: An Appalling Crime Robbery and murder of a particularly "audacious nature were committed n broad daylight on Monday on the lines of an evidently carefully thought out plan and un der conditions which gave very little chance of an arrest, or hope that one w eventuate, unless some fortunate circumstance gives the police an unexpected clue. It was a shocking outrage, but the story is only brief, Shortly after noon, as some coolies were transporting a consignment of silver sycee from one hong to another along North Honan Road, a motor car with two or three men in it suddenly dashed up. Without any warning or challenge, one of the men levelled a pistol] and deliberately shot down the coolie in charge of one load. The unfortunate fellow fell dead immediately.
As quickly as this had happened a box of sycee was snatched up and thrown into the car, which immediately sped away, all happening so speedily that most of the bystanders were unable to give any: intelligible information at all. The highwayman's haul amounted to no more than about $300,"
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