A shot fired from the-interlay of a hired car in Nanking Road in the early hours of Tuesday, and mis {taken by the Chinese chauffeur for the noise of a bursting tyre, was responsible for the wounding of the passenger, G. B. Clayton, an \American. He is believed to have shop.
Without hesitation, he put; fired the shot himself. the revolver to his own head and Shortly after 5 a.m. a Sikh con-~ fired, the bullet entering the right Stable brought the car to Louza side of the head and coming out Police Station, where the chauffeur throaigh the forehead, he then fall-[stated that Clayton had fired the ing beside the body of his victim. shot. It appears that the car, which was conveying the foreigner Sapovnixorr LINGERinG. thorne, was proceeding west along Little remains to be told. The; N; manking Road. Just after passing police were quickly on the scene Fok rT corner, the driver and Dr. Marshall was summoned j heard the nomic which he mistook from the General Hospital. The for a bursting tyre. On happening bodies were at once removed in to turn round a few seconds. later the police ambulance, that of the; he saw the foreigner had been shot, woman being conv to the It was found that the bullet had mortuary, and Sadovikoff being {entered the left side of Clayton's taken to the ral Hospital, ichest, came out behind and emin_a critical condition. bedded itself in a cushion. He was Immediately stter the immediately sent to the General the bodies were being Hospital. It is anticipated that he removed, an enormous crowd will recover.
outside the shop, and for some time afterwards the attendance of the police was _necess-Public Garden Suicide ary to prevent accumulation of people who went te gaze at the A middle-aged Chinese of the Scene of the crime long after all traces of its grim character had 1 scotia, class caused a sensation in {the Public Garden on Wednesday been removed. night by hanging himself, from a It was found at the hospital that joe near one of the footpaths, the bullet had passed entirely; Wken a constable appeared en the through the man's brain, coming out scena the man was already dead. A near the top on the left side of the juumber of pedestrians were in the head. Possessing a vigorous con-Garden at the time. The police stitution, Sadovnikoff rallied, to the investigating the affair, which g: surprise of the physicians attending }added interest from the fact that hho, and if was thought for in deceased's pocket was found a several days that he might possibly paper containing a list of cinema recover. His condition became worse films, including one entitled The on Thursday morning, however, and Lure of the Dagger he sank through the day until] he passed away about 10 p.m.
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