French Concession detectives yesterday cleared up the mystery of the murder of their Chinese detective-sergeant 139 on May 25. last, in a lane off Rue Amiral Bayle. While searching yesterday for armed suspects in Boulevard de Montigny, the police seized a Chinese who was carrying two automatic pistols in his clothing and who later confessed that he had killed the Chinese detective.
One of the two pistols was loaded but the suspect did not attempt to shoot when challenged. He was taken to the nearest police station and the weapons were examined by iarms experts. These identified one of them. as having been taken from C.D.S. 139 lest May when the detective was attacked and shot dead by a robber. The suspect then confessed that it was he who killed the detective, for the sole purpose of stealing his service pistol He further admitted that he had committed two robberies while armed and that he was about to perpetrate a third such crime, in the International Settlement, when he was arrested.
Last May 25, when the Chinese Getective-sergeant was killed, was a day on which armed robbers were unusually active in various parts of Shanghai. Five robberies and attempted robberies took place in the International Settlement and western Outside roads area on that date, including a looting at Jessfield which led to a spirited exchange of shots between the robbers and police
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