The Archive · 1938

Twice in Hour

Life-Savings Vanish as Two Gangs Get Busy fortune dogged a lowly Chinese hawker living at 1234 Yoong Ching Li, Robison Road, last night.

At 6.15 o'clock four robbers walked into the house, threatened the hawker with two pistols and stole about $60, representing ihe man's of a lifetime. Somehow overlooked $130 resting in a special hiding place.

At 7.30 o'clock another gang of four arrived, went through the room with a fine-toothed comb and walked off with the hawker's last $1.30.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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