The Archive · 1934

Inquest Over Gallant Officer

A verdict of death due to hullo:

]wounds was returned by the District [Court Procurator at the Public Mortuary on Tuesday (June 12) dur. ing the inquest over the body of CPC. 558 of the Municipal Police, who died in Police Hospital on Mon:

The death of the Chinese con-

[stable was a sequel to a shooting which occurred at the corner of!

Kwangse and Hankow Roads [Saturday night when "Mr. Chen IChing, an inspector attached to the Nantao Public Safety Bureau, just Jeoming out from a restaurant, was fired at and brought down. Almost fat the same time, C: P.C. 558, on trae duty on the intersection of Kwangse and Hankow Roads, was jared at by a man who had evidently been watching the affeer for some time,

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