A young girl, who was on the top floor, raised an alarm, bringing the alleyway watchman to the scene. Meeting the watchman at the back door, the decamping robbers opened fr, which was returned. tu the gun ratite, one of robbers wounded in both 1 rian was algo hit in the foot.
Escaping through a barber shop, the wounded gunman attracted the attention of a policeman who was having a hair-cut. The latter chased after the man and disarmed him, Meanwhile the police party from Gordon Road Station so made a careful search for the ollier robber the vicinity. The latter, who had entered a silk weaving factory through the back door from the alleyway, was found hiding there when the police arrived. A loaded Pistol was also found to have been discarded near the place.
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