Foreigner and Chinese Killed 2 Another and Four Chinese Wounded: $22,000 Taken 'A piracy accompanied by murder, perhaps without parallel ju Shanghai records took place at about 8.20 am, on May 30 on the Whangpoo River, just_a few yards from the S.M.R. Whangpoo Wharf, as a result of which Mr. J. R. Harder, dredging superintendent, and Mr. TT. T, Sun, assistant engineer in the Dredging Department of the Whangpoo Conservancy Board, are dead and Mr. J. G. Irvine, dredging engineer, is lying in the Shanghai General Hospital seriously wounded. Two other Chinese were wounded, slightly.
'The wounded men were employed by the Whangpoo Conservancy Board and they set out on the launch Li Fei at 8 am, as is usual on the 80th of each month, to pay the workmen engaged on' thi dredgers. Apparently they fai to notice that another launch following them, On board the latter was a gung of men who were deter mined to stop at nothing to get the $22,000, which was on board the Li Fei, the bandits apparently had knowledge of this The crime had a rapid development with the arrest, within eight-cen hours, of 17 men and women as suspects. Three of this band are believed to have criminal records, one man, it is alleged, having twice been acquitted on charges of murder by shooting.
Mr. Harder passed away on May Flags were at _half-ma: various parts of Shanghai cluding the Shanghai Club, the Cricket Club, and the Rowing Club as signs' of mourning for one According to information aval! able two men hired one of Messrs. Marden's Inunches at 6.40 a.m, and went to the Dah Tung Whar, Pootung, where they picked up sev others. 'Then they saw the Li Fei come down river and they followed for a little under a mile, When the Li Fei reached the' dredger Hai Hsieh, which was lying 150 yards from the South Manchuria Railway Whangpoo Wharf, Wayside, the pirates drew alongside and, without giving any warning, opened fire from the port side, As the firing took place, one of the gang, apparently the leader, shouted Kill' the foreigners first!" The gang spoke the Kompo and Shanghai dialects.
Mr, Sun was shot three times, once through the head and Messrs: Irvine and Harder also dropped. As the two unfortunate foreigners riy stretched out on deck, the gang riddled them with bullets, Mr. Teving being shot in both shoulders and the stomach and Mx, Harder receiving seven wounds in both arms, in the stomateh and in the legs. The laodah of the Hai Hsieh was shot through the left farm, but his wound is not serious. Another Chinese was also shot.
The gang then locked the Chinese crow of the Li Fei and the Hai Hsieh in the Li Fei's cabin and moved her to the Dah Tung Whart, Pootung, where they landed, deeamping with the $22,000.
The imprisoned crew managed to break the doors and to free them ves, after which they succeeded in taking the launch back to the Customs Jetty.
There was no chance of the litre pay party escaping because they were taken entirely by surprise, the gang beginning to shoot as soon as they came alongside the Li Fei. Both the Li Fei and Hai Hsieh were peppered with bullets _and presented a sickening sight. Four spent bullets, which were flattened against the steelwork, were picked up by the Water Police, and others were found embedded in the wood, work, Blood smears were everywhere. The pirates apparently were very well armed, Mr. Harder was able to say before he became unconscious "Get an ambulance" and Mr. Irvine said to Inspr. Telfer "We were shot while lying down, wounded."
Eye witnesses of the horrible affair, Messrs. S.A. Chang, draughtsman in the Whangpoo Conservancy Board, and B. S, Ching, the treasurer, and the two employees of Messrs. Marden & Ca, say that the gang lined all men' who had escaped with their lives on the deck of the Li Fel and ordered them to remain quiet.
The gang apparently were well informed of the movements of the pay staff because they had. made very careful arrangements to carry out their coup. it is generally known that the dredger staff is paid the day after the indoor staff and
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