This crime was followed by one of the most brutal and callous murders of the gang's history.
A proprietor of a theatre in the Foochow Road district was respons lo for having one of the gang arrested, and Wong decided to make an example of him.
Calling round at the theatre the following day he asked to see the proprietor. soon as the man came out, he shot hi de making an easy escape in the resulting confusion.
A few days later Wong almost succeeded in outdoing his last exploit. In an alleyway off Avenue Joffre he saw a woman with a costly bracelet.
stopped her and demanded that she hand it over: She attempted to Wong fired one shot, but that was enough: stilled the woman's voice for ever, and he took bracelet.
In the same year the gang brought off coups in Rue des Peres, jetting $500; in Elgin Road bringing. in $200; and in an alleyway off the same road, resulting $251 But by this time the police wei hot on their tracks, their descriptions had been circulated, sind rewards of ya 1g amounts offered formation leading to February and March 1922 were marked by two more atrocious ferimes by the gang.
The first in North Thibet Road where a shroff, returning from colting accounts, was shot dead without warning and his bag of money taken. The second happened ti in Poking Road, and was again the work of "Little Younger Brether" unaided.
Walking down the pavement he saw a man with a pigskin suitcase who appeared to be well-to-do, Wong followed him, and at! the right moment shot him through the back, tched his suitcase, and made a bolt for it, The net profit from this unprovoked murder was $9 in new pair of ilk shoes, old it of joes, and two American locks, not counting the pigskin suit ase.
'A Running Battle In the same month he had another affray with the police. His gang sent a letter to a factory owner in Hongkew demanding immediate payment of $500 to new arrival from Szechuen".
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