The two Koreans were comparatively well dressed in foreign-s clothes, whilst the Chinese wore a long gown. As the corpses lay by the side of the narrow allevwaylike street, it appeared though one of the Koreans had made a last attempt to reach for a pistol just prior to being mortally hit, his right hand being in his pocket. Whether or not the men were armed, could not be ascertained as investigating "Ta Tao" policemen permitted noone to look at what they had found on the bodies.
From eye-witness accounts of the affray, it appears that the trio was walking from North to South on the marrow street when from the opposite direction came seven or eight Chinese, a description of whom could not be obtained. It seemed evident that they knew their victims and that they expected them to pass
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