Terrible Bandit Outrage at Harbin: Shot Down in Street Peking, Oct. 13.
Mrs. Woodruff, wife of Mr. C. Woodruff, the accountant of "the /British-American Tobacco Company Jat Harbin, has been brutally murdered by Chinese bandits, according to telegrams received here to-day in Bristol and Liverpool, and her husband belonged to the same firm. He comes from Eastville, Bristol.
Mr, Woodruff came out to China in 1023, being stationed in Mukden. He and his wife have been home twice on long leave, in 1927 and in The Woodruff home is in Teilinss kaya street in New Town. A band lof kidnappers blocked one end. the street with a cart, thus forcing the chauffeur to slow down. Three of the band leapt on the running board of the car, and pointing a gun fat the chauffeur, forced him to turn around and drive in the direction of Bolshoi Prospect. children's safety, Sereamed to attract Mrs. Woodruff, fearing for the attention, and straggled with the armed men, A Russian passer by who heard the eries rushed up and he ehanifeur, stopped the ca, which lerabled Mrs. Woodruff and the children to jump out. The little girls yan into @ Chinese shop and hid, but the mother was shot at. point blank several times. "One of the ballets pierced her throat just under the chin, killing her instantly. oise' Stems tar aateate——~ Yasuchenko, the chauffeur, and
were alli wounded. The chauffeur was hit in the right arm, Griazof? in the right leg, and the Chinese the stomach, Shots fired by the policeman struck one of the kidnappers, killing him almost immediately. The other two managed to escape.
The police have twice recently searched the B.A.T, factory for undesirable Chinese characters, but had failed to find any warranting arrest.—Reuter, treatment, and particularly the|on the basis of peaceful overtures, food, evitable [but itis feared that the negotiations [°"9r" £oreie™ S0aHeeS, SMEPE cage He then went. to Harbin on tran 1931, returning last year in March. mapest se Lowen. in and mavtabl [ba He feared ce storable ti it SRORTy, coat, Mrs. Woodeult Fe, his wite leaving Stenghal 09t Nothing ie woo ce Cata tining long after him. Their two chil-wrong with her tummy and a rotten sort of feverish cold, sooner she gets back to nor Cheerio, see you soon, and 1 you will be able to fix up some-for Tinko soon. Personally 1 into thrive on kaoliang and ice and have learned u word or two of Chineso—CHAnLES, Dr. Phillips is inclined to believe that "his daughter's illness is not diphtheria, but a chill in the stomach, fo which she is prone—Reuter,
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