Mortuary last Priday an inquest was conducted over the body of a Chines police constable who was shot dea Foochow Road on Thursday evening shortly after ten o'clock.
Evidence was given to the effect that deceased was off duty at the time. He lived in the Wayside District and had boarded a railles cay in Dalny Road. The car had reached Hongkew Market when two ren came on board. These two men appeared to be very suspicious and the deceased placed them under observation. At the corner of Ho-van Road and Foochow Road, just outside Central Police Station, the two men alighted and deceased followed. He went up to search them' and was it the aet of doing this to one man, when the other stepped up belli him and shot him through the head, death being instantaneous, The two men then ran along Honan Road, chased by another constable, who fired two shots after them, but they succeeded in escaping.
verdict was returned that deceased met his death og a result fof a bullet wound inflicted by some
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