Two straw-hut dwellers in Tsitsihar Road were on April 22 nursing face wounds inflicted with knives by robbers who were apparently angered at obtaining only a few" pieces. of clothing at the hut on April 21. A neighbour fared worse: he was struck on the head with an iron bar by one of the robbers who resented his literally poking his nose into the affair.
The intruders, who were three in number, escaped with loot valued at $1. They had entered the hut by lifting the door from its hinges and they fled in the rain through the open front,
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