With a few followers he soon wlleeted around him, he quickly made his ative place too hot to hold him. "Robbery and murder in a district where one is well known and among - people who are as familiar as oneself with all the hiding: places possible, causes a great hue and cry, and Wong, oF Trang as: he was then known, decided to move to freer ord incident. ally more prosperous hunting. grounds. These offered in Shanghai And here in 192 he made his way, with a few faithful adherents.
Tu Shanghai the gang staged a few minor hold-ups, all remarkable for their ruthlessness, and gathered a few other choice spirits round them, until the number of their society was twelve. One of the newcomers proved faithless and was murdered in the gang's headquarters, necessitating a move to a house in Chapel, off Haining Road. It being Wong's policy never to stay long in one place, the gang soon shifted from this house to one in Chungking Road, and thence to Pakaoi Road, where they had their first serious fracas with the police. By opening fire on the small raiding harly of police who went to seck them in Pakhoi Read, before the police know that their presence was. suspected, they managed to" wound most of the party and make a clean ape, The gang took alarm, how ever, after this, and disbanded, Wong returning to his native district, where he carried on as before.
was in this Pakhoi Ko2d battle that Wong lost his trusty Browning, and afterwards he used a heavy calibre pistol belonging to a friend.
The Return When he considered that enough time*had passed for the immediate search for him to have blown over, Wong returned and again gathered together his band. In a very short space of time they brought off eleven armed robberies, most of them being also murders. The slightest ~suspicion of resistance from their victims and the gang indulged in shooting, and when they shot they shot to kill.
Some of their crimes are worth recording, as showing the spirit of their leader. In Febraary 1921 they raided a shoemaker's shop in i Chekiang Read, but found little loot, There were, however, a pair of bracelets belonging to the proprietor's wife and worth about $140. These Wong decided to take in lieu of anything better. The shop-Keeper protested. Wong immediately fired three shots into him. The man died.
Tu the following month the gang raided a house in Shanhaikwan Road, but again were disappointed in their loot. They attempted. to take a bracelet from the arm of the
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