armed engagement between armed men and police attached. to Central station on August. 22 about 4 o'clock, two police officers were wounded, one armed robber was killed and another wounded. Of the police, Det-Sgt. "Harvey ind C.D.S, 111 were" wounded the wounds according toa doctor's diagnasis being flesh wounds, although the Chinese was shot through the shoulder. The other robber unless serious after effects ensue, should recover, ame This is the first engagement for some months in which a foreign officer has been wounded. He, occopied, with one of the armed men, did not realize that he had been struck, and continued dealing with his opponent. Tt was not until hi arm and wrists became numb and he dropped his Colt 45 pistol, that.
knew that a bullet had struck him, Det.-Sgt. Harvey, after the fray, went to General Hospital, had his wound dressed and should bbe on duty again within a fow days—the bullet struck him in the right arm and following a course skin, emerged behind.
The affair took place in a com-Pound near the junction of Peking end Honan Roads. Having been informed of a rendezvous of armet robbers in a lodging house, the off ves, and, wear-steel waistcoats and equipped With steel shields, were transported to the scene of the rendezvous im the raiding van, On arrival, they left the van, and under command of Det.-Sub-Inspr. Robinson, Det-Sgt. Harvey, Det Sgt. Pryde and seven Chinese, deployed round the compound. ' The door to the lodging house was indicated and the party entered, it being reported that the gang were) in upstairs room, The party made their way up the steep stairs, An informer showed them a door directly at the head of the stairs, and told them that the armed men were inside, Whis-
Pered arrangements having been completed, Det.-Sgt. Harvey ani C.D. 123 took up posts at the door, the others occupying vant points to either side. " De Harvey kicked in the door, and seeing one man in the far corner, ordered him to put up his hands.
Instead of obeying, the robber Aived for the bed under the pillow of which he had secreted a pistol. Tu the suspicious circumstances Sgt. Harvey fired his 45 at once. The bullet found its mark and as the robber spun round, the officers nave that he had secured his weapon.
Whether he fived first or whether Sgt. Harvey got in a second bullet after his first Is not known. The criminal made a break for the other side of the room. The officer think ing that there was another door, rushed round the corner, but fount blank wall, and returning to his post, found the door again closed.
Kicking it in a second time, he saw another the loft corner: with a firing, struck him in the groin. transpired afterwards that the sec: and man had taken the pistol from the first and had continued the Dattle, while the other crawled under the ted, At this point in the affray, Det. Sgt. Harvey's arm became numb and hho dropped back, others filling the breach, With the armed man still fighting, detectives, who had got to the top of the partition—the room not having its walls to the ceiling—got into action. but whether they truck riot been decided. At all events, the robber called out that he ha enough and came out to the doo!
The police party were to see only one man, and where the other was, they having been informed that two were in the oom. He pointed to the bed and the officers dragged the missing man out, nearly dead, with wounds from two 45 bullets. He died almost immediately. The other was taken to the Police Hospital.
C.D. 111 was wounded in a strange manner. 'The door to. the year' being only a little over three eet wide, the entire party could not} get into action simultaneously.
D. 8. 111 stood: waiting for his chance. fired indiscriminately and a bullet penetrated the thin partition wall] of the room and struck the officer in the shoulder. Although he wore a steel waistcoat, which should have afforded him ample protection, the! outlet struck him Jess than one-quarter of an inch above the sted bands composing the shield. It centered the fore part of the shoulder and, although no X-rays have been taken as yet, the bullet appears to have lodged' against the shoulder blade and above the lung.
Without interfering wi search gf the room revealed that the robbers had only the one pistol, a.25 calibre, which the first mentioned had obtained. from the bed, when the police burst in the oom although only four empty cases yere found in dimly lighted room, the police believe that more "were fired. Before firing ceased, the police had fired 29 rounds.
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