Entering the alleyway one by one, and without arousing the susplelons of the watchman, the gangsters apeared at the back door of the bank 850 am. Leaving one man keeping "watch outside, the other four entered the house, we breaking into the money-room, while the other two approached an armed guard, Wang Meng-jen, in the lobby.
Regarding them as suspicious looking characters, the guard opened fire and fatally wounded one of the robbers before either could lay hands on him. The shooting was replied to by the other gangster close by, tone of the bullets striking the guard in the head. The sudden outbreak of the shooting took the other gang ters by surprise, and they" immediately escaped by the front door, leaving their dying comrade in the Hearing something unusual, the alleyway watchman raised an alarm ley blowing his police whistle. He }was met by the fleeing yangsiers at Jthe entrance to the alleyway, and Jehey opened fire before could Jdraw his pistol, a bullet striking bim in the head. When policemen gathered on the scene, the robbe! load vanished among the pedestrians during the confusion.
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