Police Encounter With a Gang.
Caught at Work Red Handed The police of Sinza station caught a gang of armed robbers red-handed committing a robbery at a Chin~ ese dwelling at 204 Chungking Road early on Tuesday morning. As a result one robber is dead and two more are expected to die. The unfortunate part is that four pedestrians, three of them women, were wounded in the fight.
AL 7.05 o'clock on Tuesday morning a message was received from an unknown source to the effect that a gang of robbers had intimidated the inmates of a dwelling house at 201 Chungking Road and were looting the premises.
Taking no chances on their possible escape, Inspr. Mills shortly gathered a squad of foreign and Chinese police and within a few] minutes was on the scene.
After stationing his men about the house the inspector himself burst into the door and came face to face with three of them, two of whom were later found to be in possession of automatic pistols.
One of the men made a gesture of drawing weapon, whereupon is recognized as one of the best pistol shots in the potice, and started up the road. gone but a few paces before he wi literally pumped full of lead from the pistols of the Chinese. He was later found to have 11 bullets in his} body. A report from the hospital] a few hours later stated that he had small chance of living.
Escape of Fourth Mai his comrade shot by the in charge of the squad, a second robber ducked behind a couch. A single shot from Inspr. Mill's 45 killed him outright.
A third man ran out the back door at the same time as the first-mentioned and, likewise, was served up a fusillade of lead, 2 great deal! of which took effect. He is not pected to The fourth man of the robber gang seemingly made his way out some side entrance and was never located.
Ata late hour on Tuesday afternoon the police were still at the police hospital taking depositions from the wounded men, and it is believed that this information may} lead to the arrest of more robbers in.the immediate gang.
In all, about 45 rounds were fired! by the police and probably eight or 10 by the fleeing robbers.
In their flight the robbers shot at random and it was either these shots, or those from the guns of the Chinese guard richocheting, which wounded the four passers-by. Three of the pedestrians received only flesh wounds and, after being given first aid at the hospital, were discharged. The third was rather more*seriously wounded, but, it said, not bach During their stay on the premises the robbers got $58 worth of money and jewellery. This was practically all recovered from the wounded and dead men.
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