Another police life wal sacrificed to' the armed robbers who have been: sweeping the foreign concessions-anid adjoining Chinese districts for a considerable period, when a detective informer, attached to Inspr. Cruickshank's special detective branch, was shot dead on Wednesday morning about 6.30 o'clock on North Szechuen Road Extension, near the Odeon Theatre, by a lone thief.
According to a report made to North Szechuen Road police station by another detective informer, short-after the shooting, and corro-'Yorated by subsequent inquiries, the Yielim of the murder, named Waung Yoong-dong, was walking along North Szechuen Road when he chanced to fee a man, whom he recognized as one wanted by the police on several charged of armed Kidnapping, armed robbery and murder, The man was riding in riesha in the direction of Hongkew Park,
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