Sensational Crime in The Western ict: Little Boy Carried Of merous eases of kidnapping which have of late occurred in the Settlement there has to be added one which occurred on Tuesday and was accompanied by murder, The crime was perpetrated in broad daylight and carried out cool and deliberate manner. Between 11 and 12 o'clock, a motor car drew up outside No, 211 Vu Yuen Rod, " large foreign house occupied by Mr. Pee Zai-shing, manager of the Tien Ziang Cotton Ca., and his family, and four men entered the grounds by climbing over a sid Eate, or fence. On approaching the Year of the house, one of the men fired a shot, and two more were discharged as the gang entered the servants' quarters at the back of the house. Finding no one there—the staff naturally having fled on hearing the shots fired—the gang passed along a passage leading to the main part of the house, and here they met an amah who had with her Mr, Pee Zai-shing's little son.
As the sequel showed, it was the boy wha war being sought and it seems a somewhat strange thing that he should be the first, and the only, member of the family upon whom they set eyes Hands wore ester, but jo? there was a short and sharp. struggle, tragically ended by tone of the miscreants who drew his revolver and fired two shots, strike ing the unfor woman at point four men then vith them, and drove the diveetion of the Settle Two Men Arrested Meanwhile, members of the household, in a state of terror a: hearing the revolver shots and sounds of He, could do nothing to the child or the amah, Dut apparently some one had. the presence of mind to run out of the house directly the gang, had gone, amd get the number of their motor cur, A telephone message was. foniee vent to Bubbling Well Police Station, and the first act of, the detectives on their arrival wels to despatch the amah to hospital. She was mortally wounded, however, one of the shots having entered the' side fof her head, and died before reach-fine the hospital.
Police investigations were pro-seeded with two arrests vnwte which ult in further portant infor n being obtain=
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