Miss Brodie Clarke's Effective Use of a Police Whistle A foreign dwelling, the home of Miss Brodie Clarke, was robbed by 'a gang of five armed men on Sunday, who after gaining admittance by threatening the coolies on! were frightened off when Miss Clarke blew a police whistle.
'The gang, it would appear, had entered the compound of No, 46 Ferry Road, through the rear gate, 'Which is reported to have been opi 'They then went to the servants' quarters, where they found two coolles, whom they threatened with death if they made an outery. The bandits told the coolies that they must take them into the house. The Intter atvirst refused, but finally, at tthe point of pistols, they were forced to go to a door leading to the Kitchen. Here the gang made them inform an amah that they (the coolies) wanted to enter. The amah opened the door and the robbers went in, Placing a guard of two men over the servants, the leader directed the others into an adjoining room, which they. proceeded to ransack. Miss Clarke, happening to be in the next room, heard the noise and opened the door between the rooms. She was confronted by the gang, but quickly shutting the door, she regained her room, and bravely blew her police whistle.
Fearing the results of the alarm the gang made off, with loot, the quantity of which at present ig not known. Detectives from Gordon Road pol tion have taken up the investigations.
In Tuesday's C.D. reports of crimes of violence, mention is made of the burgling of the Sine Pharmacy in Carter Road, and the robbing of Mr. C. Anderson, Chief JEngineer of the str. Shule, who was "beset by a gang of seven armed men jon Broadway and hed $70 taken from him,
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