The Archive · 1931

Chinese Watchman Shot by Robber

Frustrated in an_ attempt to ransack the Santow Yoko Shop at 8 Nanzing Road last night, an unidentified' man opened. fire on a Chinese watchman and. seriously, wounded him at the abdomen.

'The gunman arrived shortly after 8 p.m, and as he started to proceed upstairs, the Chinese watchman Stopped' and. questioned "him. A struggle "ensued, amd when the watchman tried to apprehend the man, the latter opened fire, The watchman is being treated st St. Lake's Hospital, "No arrest was

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