The Double Tenth Offers Good Opportunity Fuox Ocx Ows Connesroxoenr Hankbw, Oct. 13.
In the good old days robbers used to take a rest on public holidays just like everyone else. No one ever heard of a burglary on New Year's Day, Butsthe modern style armed robber has no respect for times or seasons, and even: the Double Tenth was regarded as a suitable day for depredations.
At 11 o'clock that morning a large company left Tsai Tien on the Iaunch which runs daily to Hankow and back. One passenger was a cotton dealer bringing -$2,000 down to a bank; a trader had a thousand odd dollars; a representative of the Likin Station had $4,000; and so fon. It was a case of combining business. with pleasure by arriving in Hankow in time to see the procession in the evening. But after the launch had gone two miles, nine automatics were drawn from nine pockets in the clothes of quietlooking travellers; and the money' taken for fares' on the double" journey jointed with the valuables and money of the passengers: ig. estimated to have furnished: the-nine: with about $20,000. One passenger who regards} of ed his money-as his own got a! further inland.
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