Trying to Save Woman from Armed Robbers While attempting to rescue a Chinese lady from armed. robbers who were trying to steal her bag, a Russian youth was shot dead at about 1230 pan. on Dee, 1, off Rue Latayelle, The Chinese lady was proceeding down Rue Lafayette in a private rickshaw, when she was menaced by a couple of Chinese on bleyeles, who, circled round the vehicle. One of them attempted to snatch' her hand-Lag, but she warded him off. The Flekshaw puller ran off and hid in the courtyard of a neighbouring house, 'The Russian, Georges Vassilievitch Liamine, who' was passing on the other side of the sttest, seeing the woman struggling with her aggressor, ran across to give her assistance. One of the robbers jumped on to his Dieyele, but Liamine attempted to slop and seize him. It was at, this moment that the' second robber, releasing the woman, fired two shots at the plucky Russian, one of them hitting him in the neck, Death was practically instantaneous.
Another Russian; named Baunoff, who was coming out of a passageway at that moment, was also fired at by the robber, the bullet grazing his head. The two thieves then made off ind in the direction of Rue Tenant de our, leaving one of the bleyeles be, age about 36, and had been employed by the Shanghai Waterworks and in a church in the Settlement,
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