Mr. N. G. MacDonald Loses Life, Two Others Injured by Stray Bullets: Robber Killed British subject in no way concerned with the affair, and a robber were killed, a hawker was seriously wounded, and a Chinese policeman slightly wounded in a gun-fight between the gangster and nine police constables in Boone Road, shortly after 7 a.m, on Tuesday, April 9.
'A sequel to an armed robbery in 16 Yuenchang Li, off Yuenchang Road, and a thrilling motor car chase in Broadway, the shooting was witnessed by hundreds of bystanders in the Hongkew Market.
The casualties were:
Mr. Nathaniel Gilston MacDonald, aged 39, a native of Scotland, employed as a foreman at the New Engineering & Shipbuilding Works, shot in the heart by a stray bullet; An unidentified armed robber, shot in the head and body; Chu Ah-sze, a hawker, wounded in the abdomen; and Chinese Police Constable 2241, wounded in the left leg.
The motor car chase, which started at the corner of Yuen-chang Road and Broadway, was brought to and end at the Boone Road corner, where a taxi commandeered by the robber skidded against a wall and one of the tyres burst.
The vehicle, bearing several bullet holes in the rear and at the side, was held in the compound of the Hongkew Police Station, while the chauffeur was detained for questioning.
The police pursuit was made possible by Sergt. G. H. Short, of the River Police, who, response to an alarm, turned over} to the police a Ford hire taxi in which he was riding in Broadway.
Three gangsters, all armed with pistols, took part In the robbery. Two caped when an alarm was raised, but the greater portion of the booty, consisting of cash and jewellery est-Imated at $72.80, was recovered from the dead robber. "A 32 calibre pistol of the Webley type and several rounds of ammunition were seized, The affair started shortly after 630 am, Responding to a knock at the front door, one of the occupants of the hourae, who was expecting a friend from the country, opened it, thereby, admitting the three gunmen. With one man maintaining a watch over a man. and two women in a room on {the ground floor, the other two made systematic search for valuables. The house was occupied by a physi clam, Wang Shu-ting, and even his medicine chest was rifled.
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The scene of an armed robbery which resulted in a fatal shooting.
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