Within 30 yards of where a Chinese constable was stationed on trafic duty, a very daring armed robbery occurred on September four men, speaking the Shaoghai dialect, being the perpetrators xf the outrage. Had the slightest alarm been given, the whole gang would doubtless be in the cells of Police Station by now, but the inmates of the place were too Aurried and too frightened to move.
Entering the place by the opéa front door, a pawnshop at 1599 Avenue Road, the miscreants, two of whom were armed with pistols, Jamped over the counter through the iron grille and threatened the ymates with death if they attempted to raise the alarm. Thoroughly cowed, the latter were herded into a corner and not a protest was raised when the gang demanded the key to the silverware cupboard. Gathering together $700 in cash and a few hundred dollars worth of silverware, the gang escaped unmolested through the back door.
No shots were fired and no arrests were made. In fact, the alarm was not given until " well after the robbers had decamped though ® Chinese policeman was stationed on traffic duty within 39 yards away:
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