French Resident and Son Seriously Wounded the early hours of September wu entry was made into the residence of Monsieur J. P. Ferrer, a we-known French merchant. of Villa "Meriem, 221 Bureau Strest, Tientsin, and' murderous assault made upon hi is son Jean, by a party of unidentified foreigners, states the Times." -M. Ferrer and' fare now ying in the French General Hospital, suffering from serious shotgun wounds.
Tt appears that, about 2.90 a, Ahree foreigners ' gained to the bedroom of.M. means of ladder from the balcony, and one of the intruders shot Ferrer in the right hip with his own sporting gun while he wus lying asleep in bed, Young Ferrer, whose bedroom is adjoining that of his father, was aroused by the sound of the shot. He rushed into the room of his father and tried to close with the intruders, one. of whom, however, discharged the gun. point-blank at him, with the result that his left forearm was shattered, The culprits then fled, MIN. Ferrer was operated upon on Saturday and the pellets extracted from his hip. Unhappily, so serious was the wound to the son's arm that ft had to be amputated at the elbow.
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