Detectives working under Supt. A. H. Aiers and Inspector G. J. Bennett collected the evidence left behind by the murderer, The pistol and empty cartridge cases were turned over to arms and fingerprint experts for examination. A thorough scrutiny was made of the tables were the victim and his assailants had sat, and the movements of the three men were minutely traced. Many persons were questioned.
Crowds in Nanking Road were kept moving by a staff under Insp. A. H. Chamberlain and Insp. R. J. White. The sight of a cordon of Sikhs with levelled rifles and the large vans of ihe Reserve Unit naturally attracted considerable attention.—Altogether several hundred policemen were in the immediate vicinity, while patrols of the Seaforth, Highlanders kept walking in Nanking Road and side streets, Japanese in civilian clothes, including members of the Military Police, were present in fair numbers both in the streets and in the building itself, where many Japanese reside. Inquiries about the case were made by the Japanese Military Police, and Japanese photographers took a number of pictures.
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