The Archive · 1927

Tussle with an Armed Man

Chinese who was suffering from injuries about the head made his appearance on Thursday before Judge Hsiung and Mr. Stevens, the Senior Consul's Deputy, chargee cing in possession of a landed Mau er pistol Evidence was given by Det.-Sat. O'Neil: and Sgt. Stevenson to the effect that, at 5.80 a.m.on Wednesday whilst patrolling Whashing and Yangchow Roads, the latter saw Unree men loitering on the real Ho called upon them to stop an went over to search them whereupon they ran away. Sgt. Stevenson gave ichaso and arrested the accused man, whom he chased into an alleyway. The man had attempted to draw the Mauser from beneath his jacket when the officer got his hands on him.

There was a struggle, in the the pistol from accused's possession and struck him about the head with it a number of times, rendering him unconscious. He, the accused, bled profusely, one of his eyes. being permanently injured, As the man twas in an unconscious state, Stevenson had to drag him about a mile back to the station, There were six cartridges in the magazine of the pistol and another in the unable to shoot at the officer. was asked for to enable the foreign officer came up and hit him, 'A remand was ordered,

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