The alleged non-payment of a gambling debt provided Seward Road with considerable excitement fon August. 31 when (we Chinese, alleged to be hired assassins, discerned their intended victim riding in a ricsha in the direction of Ward Road. After working on him with a pistol and a knife of jos appearance they were, however, unexpectedly interrupted by the entrance on the scene of TP.
Brambley, who though armed swith a pistol, sulued the two. and brought tem into the Provisional Court on September 1 'Also he brought an innocent par tieipant, a riesha coolie, who had been loitering near by' and. was atruck by one of the bullets tired the would-he killers.
The victim, though shot through the arm and severely hacked about the waist, would not appear against the two ar make a charge against them and on the request of the Police the eave was adjourned Iudge Hsiung to sive the officials foullicient time to hale in the victim aw well ay the the plot, - 7 1 Instigator of
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